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wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. Charles Caleb Colton
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons
mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
imperfection feminist messages
My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection. Beyonce Knowles
imperfection reason natural
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. David Hume
imperfection together reminders
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. Brene Brown
imperfection failing theft
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft? Juvenal
imperfection acting looks
With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be. Diane Kruger
imperfection have-faith
I have faith in my imperfections! Dana Delany
imperfection attractive owners
Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them. Augusten Burroughs
imperfection attention darcy
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy Jane Austen
imperfection enemy vices
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Ambrose Bierce