# Weisheit

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"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion."
Abhijit Naskar
"A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."
Michael Crichton
"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive."
George Santayana
"We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly that having done this, we have an inescapable duty to seek to inculcate others with these values."
William F. Buckley Jr.
"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
C.S. Lewis
"Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle."
Sharon Salzberg
"There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves."
Arthur Ward
"There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys."
Eliezer Yudkowsky
"Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise—too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience."
G.K. Chesterton
"Some promises are lies we never meant to tell."
Robin Maxwell
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Anonymous
"Le livre est un morceau de silence dans les mains du lecteur. Celui qui écrit se tait. Celui qui lit ne rompt pas le silence."
Pascal Quignard
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
Jane Austen
"Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."
John Hersey
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."
Diogenes
"Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it."
David Eddings
"Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech."
Somali K Chakrabarti
"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing."
Criss Jami
"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships."
Gore Vidal
"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."
W. H. Auden