Wisdom

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.'One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

People should read more.

If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.

When a person understands this setting into single- mindedness well, his affairs will pann out. Loyalty is also contained within this single- mindedness.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.

I appreciate anyone that tries to make this world a better place.

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Water has no hands,but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders,but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes,but finds its way around the universe.

When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Books have more useful things to say than fools.

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world.