#dom

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#freedom #intelligent #laws #lies #mysteries

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#wisdom #humor

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #attachment #calls #constitution #free

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#beauty #future #past #promise #wisdom

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#artists #detest #i #other #otherwise

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#experience #grave #growth #joy #life

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#core #free #free speech #freedom #imperative

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#buddhism #enlightenment #experience #first-hand #important