wisdom

"Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man t…"

"Anyone who attempts to gain a unified understanding of modern art as a whole is bound to suffer the uncomfortable sensation of having fallen into a thicket of brambles."

"So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The union is aware of that and they accept i…"

"is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may …"

"It boils down, really, to a simple message. Donald isn't going to get better... he's going to get worse. That should make people think long and hard about how they cast their next vote."

"We are here to deliver a message to America: We are here and we will never be silent again."

"If we respond to the message of pain or disease, the demand for adaptation, we can break through to a new level of wellness."

"Pynchon links at Robot Wisdom"

"Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday — that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and …"

"There are strong reasons to expect that low energy supersymmetry is the probable outcome of experimental and theoretical progress, and that it will soon be directly experimentally confirmed. By low en…"

"A man may make his way across the Atlantic in a skiff, for all I know; but if you are intending to cross the sea, take my advice, and secure passage in a first-class steamer, and you will be more like…"

"What is indeed more reassuring and thought-provoking in respect of inter-religious harmony is the fact that numerous injunctions in the Holy Quran and the Sacred Vedas are more or less identical in th…"

"Ricardo, writing fifty years later than Smith, showed a greater insight into the working of the economic system; but as for the subtlety the Scot does not lose by comparison with the Jew."

"I’ve seen my characters morphed into PC cyphers. But the thing is once I’m done working on them, it’s like watching your kids go off with another guy. The new daddy is here, I just don’t pay attention…"

"Hillary Clinton did what she did for the sake of her agenda of personal ambition, carefully planned and worked out over months in which she was using and abusing the state of New York — because she lo…"

"The mere technical problems of building a home are insignificant when compared to an understanding and an interpretation of one's innermost feelings and thoughts concerning his shelter needs."

"We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: — the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, — the most …"

"We hope to accomplish sustainable progress through positive competition based on mutual understanding, respect and cooperation, despite the differences caused by long-term separation."

"Despite our grandiose ideas and our lofty self-conceits, we are still humble animals, subject to all the basic laws of animal behaviour. Long before our populations reach the levels envisaged above we…"

"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."