„Leaving virtue without proper cultivation; not thoroughly discussing what is learned; not being able to move towards righteousness of which a knowledge is gained; and not being able to change what is not good: — these are the things which occasion me solicitude.“

— Confucius

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„The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?“
— Confucius
„Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.“
— Bruce Lee
„If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change“
— Christopher Paolini
„Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.“
— Isaac Newton
„Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.“
— Jack Welch
„Suffering, sad "female humanity!" What are these feelings which they are taught to consider as disgraceful, to deny to themselves? What form do the Chinese feet assume when denied their proper development? If the young girls of the "higher classes," who never commit a false step, whose justly earned reputations were never sullied even by the stain which the fruit of mere "knowledge of good and evil" leaves behind, were to speak, and say what are their thoughts employed upon, their thoughts, which alone are free, what would they say?“
— Florence Nightingale
„we cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.“
— Carl R. Rogers