wisdom

"“Where are You?” can be both a protest against a problem and a search for understanding and perspective."

"Solutions: Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent."

"I would say that it is a fearful doctrine, which must recoil upon the heads of those who pronounce it, to stand in judgment on a fellow human-being and to say, "Because he was such-and-such, therefore…"

"The idea of cutting tax rates to spur business comes from the economist behind Ronald Reagan’s ‘Reaganomics’ tax cuts, Arthur Laffer… The Laffer Curve delivers a simple, seemingly obvious message: Whe…"

"In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."

"This higher will is felt in its relation to the impressions and impulses and expansive desires of the natural man as a will to refrain. ... The failure to exercise the will to refrain in some form or …"

"He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality."

"This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtai…"

"Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community."

"What, then, will this philosophy be?  Thomas only employed it for the service it renders Christian wisdom.  No doubt this is why he never thought of separating it from this wisdom and giving it a name…"

"To imply by the word "terrorism" that this sort of terror is the work exclusively of "terrorists" is misleading. The "legitimate" warfare of technologically advanced nations likewise is premeditated, …"

"‘Philosophy’ comes from philo-sophia not from philo-theoria. It means ‘love of wisdom’ not ‘love of theory’. Philosophy is about living wisely, that is well. Although theory can make an important cont…"

"Prudence, and experience, suggested she expect the worst."

"Noam Chomsky treated his version of the left-right continuum in a similar light, claiming that even Lenin and his Bolshevik allies were actually right-wing extremists because they did not adhere to cl…"

"taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of trul…"

"There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness."

"If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choic…"

"I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty."

"Thales, the Milesian, is said to be the first author of it1; who used to say, that, for a man to know himself, is the hardest thing in the world2. It was afterwards adopted by Chylon the Lacedemonian;…"

"As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health."