Life is a festival only to the wise.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 54
Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.
Mark Goulston
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
Robin Hobb
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
Allen Wheelis
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
Nan Fairbrother
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
Jonathan Ive
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.
You're not the only one falling
Kami Garcia
I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.
Jeffrey Rosen
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I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.
C.P. Snow
