wisdom

"It seems to me that an understanding of the natural world is crucial for all of us – after all we depend upon it for our food, for the air we breath and, some would say, for our very sanity. Its a rel…"

"Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight."

"Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn."

"The man who is ingenious and wise, who is accompanied by a friend, and who knows the intentions of others, as also the proper time and place for doing everything, can gain over, very easily, even a wo…"

"Better to try understanding the sun than a woman."

"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves t…"

"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."

"If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud."

"He is really wise whose actions reflect his words."

"Because that's where I live, and have lived for a few years now. I wouldn't say in food tastes, for instance, that I'm Indian. I would say I'm Chinese, food-wise. That's the food that I like to eat on…"

"A good movie is precisely the one in which the camera disappears, when we are no longer aware of watching a movie, while an avant-garde film tries to turn the camera to itself and show the hidden devi…"

"The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority."

"I have one more message for you men, and for the SS goons who skulk in the woods and in the darkness," Eisenhower said. "It's very simple. We are going to stay here as long as it takes to make sure Ge…"

"Education has to do with insight, with valuing, with understanding, with the development of the power of discrimination, the ability to make choice amongst the possibilities of experience and to think…"

"From May through August 2020, hundreds had been taken into custody by law enforcement. But the result was the same for almost everyone: the Multnomah County district attorney dropped the charges, even…"

"he relationship between cognition and neurobiological processes might be similar to the one between a car engine and locomotion. ... car's locomotion is facilitated mainly by its engine, but the under…"

"The peasantry … were the true philosophers of the modern world, the heirs to classical sages such as Seneca and Socrates. Only they knew how to live, precisely because they knew nothing much about any…"

"There has always been a Brotherhood of Adepts, the Great White Brotherhood; there have always been those who knew, those who possessed this inner wisdom, and our Masters are among the present represen…"

"Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things …"

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."