A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 95
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
Sonny Perdue
I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
Audrey Hepburn
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
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None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.
Isaac Barrow
If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
Vin Diesel
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
Jay Griffiths
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
Agatha Christie
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.
Stefan Zweig
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex Flinn
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.
Brandon Lee
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs.
Pierre-Paul Grasse
