Wisdom

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

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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

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Henry David Thoreau

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Henry David Thoreau

People Will Forget….

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Jack Kerouac On Writing

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Learning

When one teaches, two learn. -Robert Heinlein

Buddha Quote

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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

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Albert Einstein Quote

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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

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Dalai Lama

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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