#wisdom

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

#proverbs #truth #wisdom #equality

The less you talk, the more you're listened to. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#less #listened #more #talk #you

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beauty #constant #constants #eternal #eternity

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully. ↗

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

#beauty

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cunning #divorced #justice #knowledge #may

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#extreme #limit #madness #public #wisdom

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#strength #values #wisdom

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗