📔Week 2016-45: Journal

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." (Confucius, "Analects", cca. 5th century) 

"It is the rhythmic form in which the mind tends to perceive monotonously repeated stimulation. That's why we pray and why we should also pray audibly, because the sound stimulates the ability to awaken our senses, in order to arouse the forces which will strengthen the psychic abilities within." (Edgar Cayce, [lecture] 1932)

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper." (Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human", 1880)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." (Helen Adams Keller, 1927)

"The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness." (Jean Cocteau, "Le Coq et l'Arlequin" ["Cock and Harlequin"], 1918)

"There are two types of ignorance, the pure, natural ignorance into which all people are born, and the ignorance of the so-called wise. You will see that many among those who call themselves scholars do not know real life, and they despise simple people and simple things." (Leo Tolstoy, "A Calendar of Wisdom", 1904) [attributed to Blaise Pascal] 

"Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly." (Michel de Montaigne, "Upon Some Verses of Virgil", 1388)

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably." (Bertolt Brecht, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle", [play] 1944)

"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge." (Leo Tolstoy, "A Calendar of Wisdom", 1904) [attributdd to Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." (Michel de Montaigne, "De l'institution des enfants" ["Of the Education of Children"], 1580)