When you don't know what to do, help someone else.
-- Cait Flanders
#GoblinValley
Amateurs do what's interesting; professionals do what's crucial.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (Sept 2003))
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FloridaScottMaxwell #Love #Motherhood #Parenting
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France
I think we are evolutionarily hardwired to be terrified of the future and the unknown because our ancestors were timid monkeys.
-- Michio Kaku
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
-- Carveth Read
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Borne
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Happiness #Suffering
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Blaise Pascal
The glue that binds an immensely diverse people cannot be a common blood or unifying religion, but must instead be a shared idea, a secular religion (from the Latin for "tying together") that supplies us with a common sense of our responsibilities to one another.
-- John Schwarz (Illusions of Opportunity)
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
-- Scottish Proverb
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
-- Sherwood Anderson
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
-- Saint Augustine
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams
Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few.
-- Ivan Illich
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
-- Baruch Spinoza
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BaruchSpinoza #Beauty #Confusion #Nature #Order
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
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