Wisdom

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

Never let your appreciation to make up you Rude.

Confusion is a weapon that is used by others to gain a temporary objective or advantage.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

How We Respond to Our Mistakes Has a Profound Effect on the People in Our Lives.

There's more to stories than it seems at first looking,' she said. 'Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and 'art' itself has become satire.

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

The more choices you have, the more your values matter.

Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.

The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!