In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

George Saunders

Mots clés wisdom art writing ideas contradiction

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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Karl Lagerfeld

Mots clés wisdom life past future existence people today create fashion-designer new-begining

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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Karl Lagerfeld

Mots clés wisdom woman women diet winning wise dieting game lose image weight look win pounds fashion-designer

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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

J.I. Packer

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If we still advise we shall never do.

Elizabeth I

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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.

Homer

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Oscar Wilde

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I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.

Chris Page

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For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Stendhal

Mots clés wisdom personal-growth personality

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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