#wisdom

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#consequences #courage #essential #forethought #god

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#eternal-life #human-desire #immortality #money #wisdom

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

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fear #fears #inspirational-life #inspirational-living

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#paradox #truth #wisdom #age

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#humor #old #wisdom #age

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life-experience #life-lessons #wisdom #age