#dom

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. ↗

— Phil Jackson

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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. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#healthy #might #own #reminded #strongest

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Socrates

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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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Voltaire

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Wise? No, I simply learned to think. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

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