wisdom

"Another perspective on how Berkeley framed his immaterialism"

"one man's wit, and all men's wisdom."

"People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs."

"The successes obtained in the government of the arts, are similar to the successes obtained in the government of men. We may succeed for a time, by fraud, by surprise, by violence: we can succeed perm…"

"It seemed too easy to claim that there was nothing new under the sun, that … our spear-wielding ancestors had been as wise and good as ourselves and that the onward march of rational thought had broug…"

"The cure to misunderstanding history is to read more, not less."

"There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom."

"When a man is asked if he is an esquire, and he answers that he is an esquire, the general understanding is that he is a person of no profession or occupation."

"Some of these things seem as if it’s a lot of hard work, and it is. But it’s to an end—toward a richer, deeper understanding of a phenomenon that I was seeking to bring to life…The term narrative come…"

"A man can reach the roof of a house by stone stairs or a ladder or a rope-ladder or a rope or even by a bamboo pole. But he cannot reach the roof if he sets foot now on one and now on another. He shou…"

"The principal distortion disseminated ... is the implication, or even the explicit claim, that measuring the polarization, circular or plane, of one of the photons somehow affects the other photon. In…"

"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway."

"I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward."

"My message to Sinn Fein is clear. The settlement train is leaving. I want you on that train. But it is leaving anyway and I will not allow it to wait for you."

"hat more authoritative, trustworthy source could one ask for than the South Koreans? Whether Kim Dae Jung, Roh Moo Hyun or Moon Jae-in, the message to Washington has always been: "Trust us; we know th…"

"Otherwise it was quiet—that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn."

"Well, Lincoln, in his July 4th Special Message to the Congress, 1861, said that the people of the South were a law-abiding people, and they would not have undertaken to do what they were now doing if …"

"A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease."

"The more you realize that most judgements are greatly influenced by random, extraneous factors—that most people judging you are more like a fickle novel buyer than a wise and perceptive magistrate—the…"

"Let members of your staff know what's going on. Otherwise give them rifles. They would rather fight."