Wednesday Wisdom

AZQUOTES.COM -- "Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority." -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855; great Danish writer and thinker) ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." -- Coco Chanel ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." -- Mark Twain ...

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MILLERCENTER.ORG -- Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.... But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage--balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration....It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to ...

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[H/T SAHIL BADRUDDIN] -- AZQUOTES.COM -- "When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends." -- Mark Twain ...

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QUOTESPICTURES.COM -- "While you complain about your light bill, there's a man with no home. While you complain about your job, there's a man praying for a dollar. While you complain that gas is to high, there's a man who's only option is to walk. While you complain about our president and politicians, there's a man who's not allowed to express his opinions. While you complain about your significant other, there's a man dreaming of having somebody. While you complain about the food in your pantry, there's a man praying for crumbs. While you complain about the world we live in, there's a man who didn't wake up today to see it. Your complaints are simply blessings to others! " -- Trent Shelton ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "Everything changes when you change." -- Jim Rohn ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." -- Albert Einstein ...

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INSIGHTOFTHEDAY.COM -- "If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal." -- Henry Ford ...

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TINYBUDDHA.COM -- "Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." -- Chinese Proverb ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Do it with passion, or not at all." -- Rosa Nouchette Carey ...

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ALLAUTHOR.COM -- "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -- Oscar Wilde ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, New York, 1983: "Those who are most qualified in scientific subjects today are often the most humble and the most convinced in their attitude to the existence of Allah."] ARTICLE: "Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem." -- Werner Arber, 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans. Their work would lead to the development of recombinant DNA technology. ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." -- Mark Twain ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Kennedy ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." -- Maya Angelou ...

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GOALCAST.COM -- "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." -- Warren Buffett ...

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QUOTETAB.COM -- "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling." -- Robert M. Pirsig ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire ...

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DAILYSTOIC.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazrat Ali: "If you are able to tell, bravery and truth are always found together, and falsehood with cowardice."] ARTICLE: The Stoics tell us to say what is right, do what is right, be comfortable swimming upstream or rejecting the choices of the mob. Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Cato all said it. However, while history admires men and women of principles, today it often the opposite. Because speaking the truth and standing up for what's right is an implicit rebuke of the status quo. It challenges people's identities. It indicts them for not doing the same. It's not easy to be honest and courageous. People are not going to throw you a parade. They're much more likely to throw insults. But you have to do ...

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THISGRANDPABLOGS.COM -- "If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today." -- Warren Buffett ...

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PICTUREQUOTES.COM -- "If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking." -- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States ...

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THISISCOMMONSENSE.COM -- "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." -- Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. An American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom." -- Mahatma Ghandi ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing." -- Thomas A. Edison ...

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DAILYSTOIC.COM -- Some people imagine that Stoicism involves for an unfeeling approach to other people. To counter this misconception, consider these from Seneca: "This is the first promise that philosophy holds out to us: fellow-feeling, humanity, sociability." "If you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means... Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself... Regard him as loyal and you will make him loyal." ...

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DEVIANTART.COM -- "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. ~~ If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood. ~~ Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself. ~~ Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.~~ If you thought that science was certain -- well, that is just an error on your part. ~~ We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong. ~~ I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. ~~ The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. ...

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[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- HUMANSOFNEWYORK.COM -- "I've spent my life trying to undo habits--especially habits of thinking. They narrow your interaction with the world. They're the phrases that come easily to your mind, like: 'I know what I think,' or 'I know what I like,' or 'I know what's going to happen today.' If you just replace 'know' with 'don't know,' then you start to move into the unknown. And that's where the interesting stuff happens." ...

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SETHS.BLOG -- (Unless they want to). Humans are unique in their ability to willingly change. We can change our attitude, our appearance and our skillset. But only when we want to. The hard part, then, isn't the changing it. It's the wanting it. ...

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AZQUOTES.COM -- "Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity." -- Warren Buffett ...

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ARTOFMANLINESS.COM -- In recent times, "moderation" has become a dirty word. Our politics, opinions, and lifestyles are polarized. Our reactions run to the extremes. Not so for the ancient Romans. They saw the ability to compromise as a hedge against tyranny, and a manifestation of one's self-control. For Aristotle, virtue was a golden mean that threaded the needle between lack and excess. Courage was the mean between recklessness and timidity. Far from being banal, then, moderation can unexpectedly offer the ...

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