#wisdom

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#wisdom #wisdom

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#humour #truth #wisdom #wisdom

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. ↗

— Harper Lee

#wisdom

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy. ↗

— Rumi

#wisdom #wisdom

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#war #wisdom

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#insight #wealth #wisdom #wit #insight

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom ↗

— Paul Auster

#contemporary

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? ↗

— Confucius

#wisdom #zen #zen

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#philosophy #suffering #wisdom #zen #zen-buddhism

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#empathy #intuition #prophet #wisdom #intuition