#wisdom

Tragedy plus time equals humor ↗

— Marie Osmond

#equality

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#family

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#consequences #human #human values #kind #knowledge

The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself. ↗

— University of Navarre

#god #old-testament #religion #scripture #wisdom

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #deals #fact #faith #lies

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. ↗

— Anna Gould

#beauty #essential #respect #wisdom #wise

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar ↗

— Mark Twain

#money

King Solomon's life reminds me of wisdom, wealth, women, woes. ↗

— Toba Beta

#wealth #wisdom #woes #women #life

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#wisdom #age

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#born #custody #fond #i #i am