If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 130
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.
Mark Van Doren
I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.
Taraka Larson
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
Dee Hock
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba
Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Kingsley Amis
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
