Wisdom

The thing about Smart People is that they seem like Crazy people to Dumb people!

There is no substitute for education.

Silence can sometimes save you. Everything doesn’t warrant words.

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.

Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... Than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... Do big things.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.

Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” (The Rise of Political Correctness).

Better is the enemy of good.

Dreams are the greatest imaginative power of mankind.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are.

Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension.

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.