#wisdo

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#wisdom #age

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#information-age #internet #knowledge #politics #truth

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. ↗

— Ram Dass

#spiritual-wisdom #dreams

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#stupidity #valor #wisdom-quote #courage

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#audience #deaf #music #nothing #requires

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#wisdom #age

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. ↗

— Carolyn Mackler

#life #wisdom #age

Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#wisdom #age

Love is the science of reducing your sound while upping the amplitude of another person. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#wisdom #age

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ageing #henry-kissinger #old-age #sources #wisdom