#wisdom

Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#education #education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom

The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance ↗

— Simon Boylan

#truth #wisdom #education

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#identity #wisdom #equality

I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#equality

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#philosophical #philosophy #romance #wisdom #wisdom-quote

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#wisdom #experience

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#knowledge #wisdom #experience

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#foolishness #wisdom #experience

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#wisdom #experience

Even trained for years as we all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine. ↗