“My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.”
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Wise Quotes — page 83 of 916
“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”
“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past”
“Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.”
“About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.”
“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
“I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.”
“Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.”
“My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.”
“My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.”
“The best way to understanding is a few good examples.”
“Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.”
“Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.”
“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.”
“Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.”
“We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.”
“I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.”
“I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.”
“This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.”
“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”