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«An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
color-blind, colorblind, green, green light, optimist, pessimist, red, red light, stoplight
«I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.»
«Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.»
«A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.»
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.»
Author: William R. Alger
(Theologian)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apothegm, Apothegms, extracts, portable, quintessential
«Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.»
«Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.»
«All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Betrayal,
Experience,
History,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
betrayed, relies
«'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.»
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