Wisdom

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

...First, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called 'simultancous' distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Compassion grows in the recognition that we are all the same.If you can’t see some part of yourself in every single person you encounter, then you’re not looking closely enough, at the person or at yourself.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt.

We believe... That by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings... That will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities.

For any question – regardless of its complexity – there is a clear andsimple answer.

Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.

There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies.

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?

Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?

All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.].