Quotes About Wisdom

People need books like zombies need brains.

Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself.

world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

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It was important that the objects of love be nothing but recipients, he thought again. Love was an outgoing thing, a gift that one should not expect to be returned. Stendhall must have said that, Proust certainly, using other words: a piece of wisdom his eyes had passed over reading.

I'm still an old pearl in a new oyster.

The Goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

How to Think Like Athena 1. Remove shoes. Stand on earth. 2. Find your center. Find your balance. 3. Lift chest. Drop shoulders. Let palms fall open at sides. 4. Open lips. Breathe. Feel air pass into self. 5. Open eyes wide. Look to the horizon. 6. Ask, what says the foot? Ask, what says the leg? 7. Ask, what says the sex? Ask, what says the heart? 8. Ask, what sees the eye? Ask, what hears the ear? 9. The mind is the body. Think everywhere at once.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess

Fancy going out into the world under the impression that you can always have your own way! Would anything be more likely to lead to disaster?

Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.

Quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia...

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Lincoln apparently never even thought of correcting his son.

The Mind in the Making.

Remember what Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." And

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter? If so, isn't it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn't it wiser to make suggestions—and let the other person think out the conclusion?

These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.

Pero se necesita carácter y dominio de sí mismo para ser comprensivo y capaz de perdonar.

It taught Carnegie a lesson he never forgot.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.