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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Leo Tolstoy
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
Topic: Judgment
Author: George Eliot
A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.
Topic: Politics
Author: Duc De Choiseul
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
Topic: Adventure
Author: Thomas Gray
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Larry Adler
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Topic: Desire
Author: Patti Smith
And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Topic: Prison
Author: Bible
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Topic: Innocence
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. -Nikos Kazantzakis.
Topic: Choice
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: John Churton Collins
Revolutions never go backward.
Topic: Revolution
Author: Wendell Phillips
Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Anthony Burgess
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Liz Carpenter
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.
Topic: Suffering
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Topic: Washington
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
Topic: Jury
Author: E B White
A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Briefly, that teaching contains the following elements: (1) There is one living and true God (i.9); (2) Idolatry is sinful and must be forsaken (i.9); (3) The wrath of God is ready to be revealed against the heathen for their impurity (iv.6), and against the Jews for their rejection of Christ and their opposition to the Gospel (ii.15,16); (4) The judgment will come suddenly and unexpectedly (v.2,3); (5) Jesus, the Son of God (i.1O), given over to death (v.10), and raised from the dead (iv.14), is the Saviour from the wrath of God (i.10); (6) The Kingdom of Jesus is now set up and all men are invited to enter it (ii.12); (7) Those who believe and turn to God are now expecting the coming of the Savior who will return from Heaven to receive them (i.10; iv.15-17); (8) Meanwhile, their life must be pure (iv.1-8), useful (iv.11-12), and watchful (v.14-8); (9) To that end, God has given them His Holy Spirit (iv.8; v.19). (Continued tomorrow).
Topic: Christianity
Author: Roland Allen
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Topic: Hatred
Author: Lord Byron