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Tag Archives: Wisdom
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” ~John W. Gardner
“Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.” ~Galileo Galilei
Understanding Ourselves
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre
Good Books
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
~ Rene Descartes
Watch Your Thoughts
“Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”
~ Laozi
“If you chase two rabbits,you catch none.” ~ Confucius
To Be A Philosopher
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
The Wise Man
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
For What Its Worth
Love things in common. Hopefully, we can live in harmony.
Wisdom Is Everywhere
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
~ Josh Billings
Wisdom And Learning
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~ Sandra Carey
The Truth Is Simple
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Big Enough
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
~ John C. Maxwell
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.” ~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Conquering Fear
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell
Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~ Albert Camus
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote: Wisdom
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge Is Knowing
Black Cat ~ Groucho Marx
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
~ Groucho Marx
True Wisdom
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-Socrates
Walter Lippmann ~ Wisdom Quote
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
~ Walter Lippmann
Real Wisdom ~ Leo Tolstoy
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
~ Leo Tolstoy
Know Nothing
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ~Leo Tolstoy
Voltaire Quote
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. ~Voltaire
Knowledge
Conversation
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau
People Will Forget….
Jack Kerouac On Writing
Learning
When one teaches, two learn.
-Robert Heinlein
Buddha Quote
Books…
Books give a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to
the imagination, and life to
everything else.
-Plato
Charles M. Schulz Quote
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On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami
Stephen Chbosky
Albert Einstein Quote
Socrates
Sometimes you put walls up
not to keep people out,
but to see who cares enough
to break them down.
Socrates
Voltaire
It is dangerous
to be right
when the government
is wrong.
Voltaire
Plato On Books
Books give a soul
to the universe,
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination,
and life to everything.
Plato
Three Things
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon and the truth.
Buddha
Margaret Mead On Thinking
Dalai Lama
Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where
I needed solitude and
just stop the machine
of thinking and enjoying
what they call living,
I just wanted to lie in
the grass and look at
the clouds.
Jack Kerouac
Aristotle On Madness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking
Man
Man: a being in search of meaning.
Plato
Muhammad Ali Quote On Champions
Allen Ginsberg Quote On Poetry
Soul
Walt Whitman Quote
Edna Ferber Quote
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Edna Ferber
Thinking
Thinking: the
talking of the
soul with itself.
Plato
Billy Joel On Musicians
Marcel Proust Quote
Born: July 10, 1871 – Died: November 18, 1922
Jack Kerouac Quote
Frida Kahlo Quote
Robert Frost Quote
Gautama Buddha On The Way
Jane Austen On Reading
A Quote On Matter
E. E. Cummings Quote
Albert Camus Quote
Mark Twain Quote
Italo Calvino Quote On Literature
Bob Marley “Free Minds”
Fear
William Blake Quote
Songs of Experience (1794)
Annie Dillard On Writing
Salvador Dali On Artists
Vladimir Nabokov Quote On Space
Terance McKenna Quote About Television
Leonardo da Vinci Quote
Jorge Luis Borges Quote About Libraries
Uitwaaien (Dutch)
Walt Whitman Quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Noam Chomsky On Language
Buddha Quote On “Blame”
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The Past
Quote By Osho
Kurt Vonnegut On Political Parties In America
It makes sense.
George Eliot Quote
Jonathan Safran Foer Quote On Happiness
George Orwell Quote About Politics
He does hit the nail on the head.
J.R.R. Tolkien Quote About Dreams
Bertrand Russell Quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti On Poetry
T.S. Eliot On Libraries
Dalai Lama Quote
Ray Bradbury Quote On Love
William Hazlitt On Invented Falsehoods
The quote below, could be applied to not my so-called president.
William Hazlitt – Critic, essayist, painter, philosopher