#gain

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

#easiest #experience #first #gaining #highest

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. ↗

— John Flavel

#brethren #declaim #easier #mortify #others

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#answer #away #begs #did #enforcement

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer. ↗

— Sean Connery

#bit #day #even #every #every day

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#again #bicycle #invention #kit #repair

I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#bowl #dressing #dump #enough #greens

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#against #fate #humanity #measured #our

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#buying #clear #discussions #dominance #european

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#against #communication #conspicuously #formal #handing

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. ↗

— John Conyers

#age #based #being #civil #civil rights