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wise wisdom attitude
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer
wise kings men
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. Charles Spurgeon
wise men blessing
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool! Charles Spurgeon
wise heart hands
God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart. Charles Spurgeon
wise christian feelings
The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself. Charles Spurgeon
wise prayer heart
God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love. Charles Spurgeon
wise wisdom knowledge
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon
wise lying son
Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie? Charles Spurgeon
wise book pressure-groups
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong. Diane Ravitch
men united
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking matter
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. Albert Schweitzer
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking evil
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking bears
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe. Albert Schweitzer
men doe musician
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking giving
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own. Albert Schweitzer
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human. Albert Schweitzer
men perfection personality
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. Albert Schweitzer
views optimism world
Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst. Albert Schweitzer
views understanding world
Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole. Albert Schweitzer
views world vices
World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa. Albert Schweitzer
views profound world
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities. Albert Schweitzer
views liberty failing
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter. Ludwig von Mises
views color effort
No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see. Chris Crutcher
views people research
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it. Dennis Ritchie
views people young
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views. Dennis Prager
views economic-inequality evil
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. Dennis Prager