#wisdom

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall. ↗

— Suzanne Crowley

#stupidity #wisdom #genius

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#mathematics

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. ↗

— Rumi

#metaphysics #rumi #metaphysics

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#strategy

Time is money, but money isn't time ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #success #wisdom

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#intuition

Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#myth

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#rome #soul #thoughts #wisdom #meditation

he who will not economize will have to agonize ↗

— Confucius

#ignorance #knowledge #suffering #wisdom #economics

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intellectual-sophistication #internet #irony #nerd #nerdery