#wisdom

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Socrates

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mistakes #paradox #timidity #wisdom #wisdom

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ↗

— Voltaire

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Wise? No, I simply learned to think. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #libraries #wisdom #wisdom

Never laugh at live dragons. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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