"wisdom"タグの名言

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

All those years I thought that it was power that brought responsibility. It's not. I was wrong. It's responsibility that brings power. It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage.

Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.” —Zarost

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