#wisdom

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#compassion #greatest #i #just #patience

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#expect #government #human #human wisdom #people

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now... ↗

— Evanescence

#life #wisdom #beauty

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #consists #wisdom

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. ↗

— William Cowper

#honey #lead #truth #weed #whom

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you. ↗