Quotes About Wisdom
First learning, then proving I'd learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren't the same thing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. I
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Read every day and learn from what you read.
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All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God
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To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.
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Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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I want you to be serious. I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
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Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
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As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
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Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom.
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Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.
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Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.
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I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.
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Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.
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I mean to learn everything I can while I can,' I said. 'If I find myself outside, maybe what I've learned will help me live long enough to learn more.
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How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.
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To shape God With wisdom and forethought, To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach.
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God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior.
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To shape God With wisdom and forethought, To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach. FROM Memories of Other Worlds
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Até mesmo um pouco de ficção pode ser útil [...] se você não precisar dessas informações, elas não serão prejudiciais. Você só vai saber um pouco mais do que antes.
~ Octavia E. Butler
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Even people who can't read are impressed by books.
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