wisdom

"The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes—unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states…"

"Listen to anyone in the street and he’ll tell you what to do. Our people are wise."

"I don't take calls from Joey Styles at the Palace of Wisdom."

"In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once …"

"The consolations of the moral ideal are vigorous. They do not encourage idle sentiment. They recommend to the sufferer action. Our loss, indeed, will always remain loss, and no preaching or teaching c…"

"These wisdoms are for the luring of youth toward high moral altitudes. The author did not gather them from practice, but from observation. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nob…"

"When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns."

"Noam Chomsky: "I'm delighted to hear that I'll be followed shortly by Norman Finkelstein and would very strongly advise you to come listen to him. Not only an old personal friend but a person who can …"

"Then what should we work for?Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same sourc…"

"It just seems to me that we either have an irrational need to believe or we have a desire to understand and to improve that understanding. For those of the latter set, accuracy and accountability are …"

"Actually there were a lot of people like Tara-May in Hollywood, maybe even most people were; everybody had something they “really” did. Drivers wrote, bartenders acted; she’d had massages from a girl …"

"This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of…"

"If people are capable of committing evil deeds, then the people occupying the offices of government will be cut from the same cloth. They are evildoers, too. There is not a single shred of evidence th…"

"Wisdom is intelligence drenched in culture."

"The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, GR and QM have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At th…"

"From the perspective of continued understanding of the situation, it is only at this time that everyone realizes it is so dangerous. If we knew at first from the virus spread that it would be so serio…"

"They're all furnished pretty much the same way. In your bedroom, you have the mattress on the floor, protected by a mountain of dirty clothes, milk crates for night stands, lava lamp with a permanent …"

"The wise one does not speak to one whom he fears he shall be belied, he does not ask anyone of anything if he fears he shall not give, and he does not repose hope on one whom he does not trust."

"Two Messages". Article by Václav Havel in Salon October 2008. Retrieved 2010-09-25"

"If the Mohammedan had not practised tolerance at a time when this idea was unknown to the rest of Europe, there would now be idyllic peace in the Balkan States and in Asia Minor. Here it is the Christ…"