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Fifty?” Harry gasped. “Fifty points each,” said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily. “Professor — please —” “You can’t —” “Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do, Potter. I’ve never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students. ↗


— J.K. Rowling


#mcgonagall #points #students #teachers #teacher

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in ↗


— Meg Cabot


#teen-idol #thatsaquote #teen

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗


— Luther E. Vann


#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

De la nostalgia humana por el amor ha brotado al fin y al cabo toda la parte de la cultura que no se orienta directamente a calmar el hambre o a luchar contra los enemigos. El sentimiento de la belleza no mana de otra fuente. Todo el arte, toda la poesía, toda la música han bebido de ella. El más soso cuadro de historia moderno, las madonas de Rafael, y las obreritas parisinas de Steinlen, el 'Ángel de la Muerte' como el Cantar de los Cantares y el Buch der Lieder, oratorios y valses vieneses, incluso toda moldura de yeso en esta casa horrenda donde vivo, todo dibujo de la alfombra, la forma de aquel jarrón de porcelana y el diseño de mi bufanda, todo lo que pretende gustar y embellecer, tanto si lo logra como sino, viene de allí, aunque sea por caminos largos y tortuosos. ↗


— Hjalmar Söderberg


#art

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ↗


— Socrates


#wisdom #wonder #wisdom

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ↗


— Voltaire


#self-knowledge #wisdom #wisdom

Wise? No, I simply learned to think. ↗


— Christopher Paolini


#wisdom

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗


— William Shakespeare


#wisdom






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