"Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for……" — Louis Finkelstein
"Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes."
More Begins Quotes
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
- It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
- I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
- Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
- Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
- The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
- The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
- A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce