Margaret Fuller Quotes

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wisdom
  • Turn
  • Wounds

• 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
  • Respect
  • Wisdom
  • Listen

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Wisdom

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• 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
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• 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
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Mom

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Step

• Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Happy
  • Wisdom
  • Human

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Party
  • Wisdom

• In Christianity, the sheep tends to follow their shepherd. They will trust the wisdom and trust the decision of their pastor, so when my pastor thinks highly of him to endorse him, there must be something there.

  

  James Darrell Scott Band of Joy
  • Wisdom
  • Decision
  • Sheep

• In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• As a singer, I have a unique voice, but I’ve never shown a powerful voice.

  

  Park Ji-young After School
  • Unique
  • Voice
  • Shown

• I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Feminist

• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Attention
  • Immortality

• It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Wisdom