Path Quotes - Page 45

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.

Socrates splits himself into two, so that there are two Socrates: the Socrates who knows in advance how the discussion is going to end, and the Socrates who travels the entire dialectical path along with his interlocutor.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.