#widsom

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. ~ Nancy B. Brewer ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#nancy-b-brewer #poems #quotes-to-live-by #widsom #historical-fiction

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#widsom #age

Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages. ↗

— Ryokan

#age

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. ↗

— Oscar Arias

#inspirational #justice #widsom #equality

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal ↗

— Lady Murasaki Shikibu

#truth #widsom #equality

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694) ↗

— Isaac Newton

#reason #science #widsom #dating

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#achievement