#knowing

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#consists #degree #different #exerted #knowing

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#jesus-christ #knowing #balance

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera. ↗

— Ryne Sandberg

#bunt #camera #dug #find #hit

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#been #die #fears #great #great person

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#around #close #criticism #fight #first

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. ↗

— Nina Simone

#heroes #heroines #knowing #not knowing #people

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask! ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#between #courage #difference #ditzy #dumb

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ↗

— Huston Smith

#comes #constitutes #continue #everything #extend

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#consists #differ #difference #knowing #resemblance