176 quotes found
“Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones ...”
“If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.”
“Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.”
“Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”
“I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely...”
“Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.”
“You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.”
“There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.”
“A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.”
“The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.”
“So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.”
“You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.”
“Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.”
“The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.”
“To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.”
“Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.”
“Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.”
“If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you're not a hard worker, it's about how smart you work but times two from the brain.”
“Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”
“If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.”
