Saint Augustine Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore
-
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
-
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges
-
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
-
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales
-
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
-
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
Abu Bakr
-
I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
Zoe Kazan
-
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
-
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden
-
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
-
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
Radhanath Swami
-
When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
Fabrizio Moreira
-
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
-
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Saint Augustine
-
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
-
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
John Lennon The Beatles
-
Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.
Alice Steinbach
-
I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion
-
Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.
J. C. Ryle
-
...labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.
Maggie Nelson
-
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine