#wisdom

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#animal-totem #animal-wisdom #beauty #beholders #inspiration

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#open-mind #wisdom #men

All men by nature desire to know. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #wisdom #men

Greater men died for lesser reasons ↗

— Ahmad AbdelHady

#men

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#wisdom #art

It takes a very long time to become young. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#innocence #knowledge #wisdom #youth #youth

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ↗

— René Descartes

#rationality #truth #wisdom #logic

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#wise

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#travel #wisdom #law

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#blessings #loquacity #remaining-silent #reticence #silence