#wisdo

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#humanity #life #maturity #space-exploration #star-trek

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cyberpunk #dark #dark-elves #ego

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place. ↗

— Matt Smith

#doctor-who #geeks #happiness #life #nerds

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. ↗

— George Orwell

#philosophy #satire #wisdom #life

life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid ↗

— John Wayne

#knowledge #stupidity #wisdom #life

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#life #wisdom #life

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#life

Suffering teaches joy. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#happiness #joy #life #pain #suffering

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#wisdom #life

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

#wisdom #inspirational