‘To repeat what others have said, required education, to challenge it, requires brains.’
Mary Pettibone Poole
‘It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.’
G.K. Chesterton
‘Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.’
John Quincy Adams
‘Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.’
George Santayana
‘I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’
Henry David Thoreau
‘If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.’
Anthony Robbins
‘It is no longer enough to be smart – all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.’
Doc Childre And Deborah Rozman
‘Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.’
George Burns
‘Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, your and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.’
Mary Catherine Bateson
‘It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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