#wisdom

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#consists #damn #damn fool #day #every

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#life #wisdom #life

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #dying #end #epic #out

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#enlightenment #knowing #others #yourself

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#certainly #decreed #infinite #league #little

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ↗

— Kevin Brooks

#wisdom #loss

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#crisis #explorer #ideas #wisdom #consciousness

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#determination