Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 129

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

Aelred of Rievaulx

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Franz Grillparzer

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Baltasar Gracian

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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.

John Dryden

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

William Glasser

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Viktor E. Frankl

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don\'t want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Michael Shurtleff

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

Albert Einstein

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Isocrates

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Fanny Burney

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

Yasmin Mogahed

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Alan Ball

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Basil of Caesarea

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Samuel Butler