#dom

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#fool #fools #great #great deal #greater

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#pillars #society #truth

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#case #confidential #confidentiality #continue #domain

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#ending #every #freedom #generation #never

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#emancipation #freedom #men #other #rule

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#life #life-changing #life-lessons #motivational #travel

I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a constraint, as strong as any belt. And this is certainly true, which makes it a good moral. Or it may be that we are all constrained in some way, either in our bodies, or in our hearts or minds, an Empress as well as the woman who does her laundry. ... Perhaps it is that a shoemaker's daughter can bear restraint less easily than an aristocrat, that what he can bear for three years she can endure only for three days. ... Or perhaps my moral is that our desire for freedom is stronger than love or pity. That is a wicked moral, or so the Church has taught us. But I do not know which moral is the correct one. And that is also the way of a fairy tale. ↗

— Theodora Goss

#love #freedom

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#our #portion #predominate #will

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#freedom