If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, "It seems to be raining," on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.
Dashiell HammettTags: wisdom
Christ is in me...Christ is my life, this is why i live the higher life...and the reason why i am more than a conqueror!
Jaachynma N.E. AguTags: wisdom success christianity relationship godly risk-it-be-different the-best-option jaachynma higherlife
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
Anthony de MelloTags: wisdom vanity saintliness
You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
C.S. LewisTags: fear wisdom courage bravery
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.
Peter WattsTags: wisdom comprehension artificial-intelligence data-analysis post-modern-technofaith
Some people would rather be right than free.
Vivian AmisTags: wisdom truth self enlightenment spiritual-quotes
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
Michel FoucaultTags: wisdom philosophy death
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
Henry MillerTags: wisdom intelligence reading books debate-fodder
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
Leonardo da VinciTags: wisdom experience knowledge
the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
Alexandre DumasTags: wisdom perspective mistakes hindsight
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