Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated—tranquility, fearlessness, and freedom. We… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
At some point in your life, you're going to find yourself at a crossroads and neither of those roads leads to anything… — Izaya Copy Share Image
“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“I believe that people come into your life and then some go.I also think there's a purpose as to why they were… — Shey Stahl Copy Share Image
Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“ What is Required by Paul Allen (fragment) 1 All elsewhere being World, how many times have I stood in the bright… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“If you are now facing difficulties in your life, don’t focus on them but rather focus on God because when you keep… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
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We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you make a mistake, concentrate on the reason, and try to learn a lesson. On committing a mistake never regret, act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young.… — Beverly Swerling Copy Share Image
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In that courtship, not only shine your eyes but also shine your brain and shine your heart because it is not all… — Chimbiani Ochonogor Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is… — Henry Daid Thoreau Journal 26 Jan 1840 Copy Share Image
God always knows best. So when I pray I do make mention of my desires, but I allow God to see what… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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