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wisdom destiny want
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be. Thomas Merton
wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him. Thomas Merton
wisdom emotional mind
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds Thomas Merton
wisdom men infinite
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Thomas Carlyle
wisdom ideas mind
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. Thomas Carlyle
wisdom sweet tea
It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. Sam Levenson
wisdom men silence
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. Saadi
wisdom islamic thee
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me. Saadi
ignorance twenties finals
Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors. Thomas Huxley
ignorance dark evil
What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. Henry Ford
ignorance men self
Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know! Manly Hall
ignorance simple hug
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity. Mahatma Gandhi
ignorance experts
Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts. Friedrich August von Hayek
ignorance achievement liberty
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend. Friedrich August von Hayek
ignorance giving information
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information? Friedrich August von Hayek
ignorance civilization profound
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call "civilization" rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess. Friedrich August von Hayek
ignorance planes adversaries
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. Frederick Soddy
world
For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished. Daniel Handler
world results activity
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. Arthur Schopenhauer
world beats
To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best. Dorothy Hamill
world youth young
Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth. Dorothy L. Sayers
world rivals resentment
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Donald Rumsfeld
world stories attractive
The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories. Donald Miller
world needs changing-the-world
To change the world you'll need a pen. Donald Miller
world morality life-is
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world. Don Richardson
world united-states sheriffs
The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world. Dutch Ruppersberger