"From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom."
T.F. Hodge
"When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us."
Swami Dhyan Giten
"If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong."
David Graeber
"Just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them."
Fiorella De Maria
"The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness."
Anonymous
"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
A. J. Liebling
"Cinema is a world of imagination."
Marjane Satrapi
"His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg."
Hans Christian Andersen
"Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor."
Euginia Herlihy
"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
Arthur C. Clarke
"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
Robert Wilson Lynd
"No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money."
Anonymous
"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized."
Amit Abraham
"Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda."
J.A. Willoughby
"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."
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