Browsing Quotes With Tag: wisdom (69)
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“Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Maturity, the way I understand it,” he told me, “is knowing what your limitations are.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Live by the 'foma’ [harmless untruths] that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this:
God grant me
The serenity to accept
The things I cannot change,
Courage
To change the things I can,
And wisdom always
To tell the
Difference.
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise man, nevertheless, unequaled though he is in his devotion to his friends, though regarding them as being no less important and frequently more important than his own self, will still consider what is valuable in life to be something wholly confined to his inner self.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas ‘the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.’
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Speaker: Immanuel KantPosted: 08 Jul 2008 at 2:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Speaker: Emile ChartierPosted: 28 Nov 2007 at 10:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 28 Nov 2007 at 10:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!