📔Week 2017-12: Journal

[#opportunity]
"[...] if we are to have any future, we must create that future ourselves." (Beatrice Bruteau)

[#love, #altruism]
"People who exude love are in every way like rivers - they stream. And when they collect possessions and things that they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Did you ever notice that when you give things away, you keep getting more? That, as you create a vacuum, more flows in?" (Alan Watts)

[#control, #change]
"Nature is not a force over which we must triumph, but the medium of our transformation." (Marilyn Ferguson)

[#suffering, #fear]
"To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none." (Francis Bacon)

[#perspective]
"Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

[#reality, #change]
"To change our realities we have to change our myths." (Riane Eisler)

[#human nature, #control]
"The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature." (Edward Abbey, "Beyond the Wall”, 1984)

[#quest]
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it." (Seneca the Younger)

[#acceptance, #certainty]
"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)

[#limits, #knowledge]
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." (Claude Bernard)

📔Week 2017-11

[#growth, #reality]
"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven... Build, therefore, your own world." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”, 1836)

[#happiness, #quest]
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost." (H. Jackson Browne)

[#knowledge, #chaos]
"Don't worry that your life is turning upside down.
How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" (Rumi)

[#confidence, #knowledge]
"Confidence is not about being always right, but always knowing what to do when things go wrong." (Anon)

[#learning]
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” (Thomas H. Huxley)

[#education]
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." (Abbe Dimnet, "Art of Thinking", 1928)

[#love, #wisdom]
"Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love." (Shams Tabrizi)

[#learning, #truth]
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." (Antisthenes)

[#education, #inquiry]
"The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." (David L Finn)

[#learning, #perception]
"Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning." (Peter Senge)

📔Week 2017-10: Journal

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." (Winston Churchill)

"Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest." (Auguste Rodin)

"The most dangerous of our prejudices reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act." (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)

"[…] there are no backwaters. There is only one river, and we are all in it." (Scott Russell Sanders, “Writing from the Center”, 1997)

"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love." (Lukas Foss)

"If you look for the truth outside yourself, it gets farther and farther away." (Tung-shan)

"If one will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too, is but a single day." (Hagakure)

"Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." (John Finley)

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." (Elizabeth Bowen)

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." (Nelson Mandela)

📔Week 2017-09: Journal

[#values]
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." (Henry David Thoreau)

[#knowledge, #quest]
"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." (Russian saying)

[#attachment, #freedom]
"Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of a Liberated One." (Huang Po)

[#hope, #focus]
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest." (Dalai Lama)

[#change, #strength]
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." (Dr. Robert Anthony)

[#hope, #fear]
"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." (François de La Rochefoucauld)

[#learning, #experience]
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." (Douglas Adams)

[#knowledge, #unknown]
"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?" (Zhuang Zhou)

[#faith, #hope]
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." ( Thomas Aquinas )

[#success, #dreams]
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." (Swami Vivekananda)

📔Week 2017-08: Journal

"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves." (Bonaro Overstreet)

"Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. (Eric Temple Bell, "The Search for Truth")

"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much." (Lewis Carroll)

"So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." (Norton Juster)

"You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." (Freya Stark)

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." (Jane Smiley)

"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." (Seneca the Younger)

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)

"There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness." (Gregg Braden)

📔Week 2017-07: Journal

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination." (Roy M. Goodman)

"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits." (Don Ward)

"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you." (Kabir)

"Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." (Anatole France)

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." (Theodore N. Vail)

"Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have." (Zen saying)

"If you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier." (Leó Szilárd)

"Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it." (Zen saying)

"Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves." (William Gilbert)

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." (Anatole France)

📔Week 2017-06: Journal

"Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction." (Joel Barker)

"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark." (Zen saying)

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." (John Maynard Keynes)

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol)

"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them." (Zen saying)

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." (Samuel Johnson)

"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth." (Tom Barrett)

"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable." (Chinese saying)

"Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know." (Enrico Fermi)

📔Week 2017-05: Journal

[#quest, #solitude]
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." (Henry David Thoreau)

[#success, #happiness]
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it." (Andy Rooney)

[#values]
"He that despiseth small things, shall fall by little and little." (Ecclesiasticus)

[#meditation]   
"Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution." (Ajahn Sumedho)

[#ego, #knowledge]  
"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in." (D.H. Lawrence)

[#happiness, #effort]
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." (Zhuang Zhou)

[#learning, #habitude]  
"You learn more from getting used to things than from studying." (Japanese saying)

[#choice]  
"How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you." (Sarah Reijonen)

[#change, #love]
"You change your life by changing your heart." (Max Lucado)

[#choice, #chance]
"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." (Pythagoras)

📔Week 2017-04: Journal

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." (Leo Buscaglia)

"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely that you will step up and take responsibility for making it so." (Noam Chomsky)

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." (Frank Herbert, "Dune Chronicles: Chapterhouse")

"It is not wisdom but ignorance that teaches men presumption. Genius may sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as knowledge." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." (Samuel Johnson)

"All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of humanity." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." (Dalai Lama)

"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." (Henry Bolingbroke)

"Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open that your brains fall out." (James Oberg)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." (Anaïs Nin)

📔Week 2017-03: Journal

[#assumptions, #errors]
"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions." (Frank Herbert, “Dune - Children of Dune”)

[#wisdom, #knowledge]
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things." (Saint Augustine)

[#skills, #growth]
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." (Henry David Thoreau)

[#love, #desire]
"Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company." (Milan Kundera)

[#letting go, #control]
"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself." (Deborah Reber)

[#limits, #balance]
"Sometimes we have to travel to the edge of ourselves to find the center." (Buck Ghosthorse)

[#change, #perception]
"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it." (Mary Engelbreit)

[#appearances, #errors]
"Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it’s probably because two errors are canceling each other out." (Dave Bartley)

[#teaching, #practice]
"Never forget that, at the most, the teacher can give you fifteen percent of the art. The rest you have to get for yourself through practice and hard work." (Tan Soh Tin)

[#reason, #action]
"Those who will not reason perish in the act: Those who will not act perish for that reason." (W.H. Auden)

📔Week 2017-02: Journal

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." (Nicholas Sparks)

"Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain." (Frank Herbert, "Dune")

"No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn’t take a hard look at itself." (John W. Campbell)

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." (C. S. Lewis)

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." (Albert Camus)

"Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another." (Claude Lévi-Strauss)

"Forgiving someone doesn’t give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on." (Charles F Glassman)

"Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance. Win without fighting." (Yogi Amrit Desai)

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.: (Thomas Mann)

"Do not destroy what you cannot create." (Leó Szilárd)

📔Week 2017-01: Journal

"One does not set out in search of new lands without being willing to be alone on an empty sea." (André Gide)

"Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom."(Herbert Simon)

"Suffering is a challenge; when you suffer you are challenged, when there is a problem you are challenged. When you encounter the problem, only then do you grow. More insecurity, more growth; more security, less growth. If everything is secure around you, you are already in your grave, you are no longer alive. Life exists in danger, life always exists in the possibility of going astray. But one who goes astray can come back, one who fails can succeed." (Osho)

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy." (Donald Knuth)

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." (Gandhi)

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." (Omar Bradley)

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge." (Alfred N Whitehead)

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." (Elbert Hubbard)

"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here - the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos." (Frank Herbert, “Heretics of Dune”, 1984)

📔Week 2016-52: Journal

"One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never." (Alexandre Dumas)

"Be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

   
"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself." (Brain Tracy)

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable." (William Pollard)

"The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity." (Ram Dass)   

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves." (Carl Jung)

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." (Victor Frankl)

"The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy." (Noam Chomsky)

"To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act." (Anatole France)

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson)

📔Week 2016-51: Journal

"To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well." (Jim Rohn)

"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." (Marilyn vos Savant)

"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score." (Bill Copeland)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw)

"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." (Japanese saying)

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." (Colin Wilson)

"Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can." (Siobhan Fahey)

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination." (Carl Rogers)

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." (Epictetus)

"The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing." (Theodore Roosevelt)

📔Week 2016-50: Journal

"Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists." (Japanese saying)

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." (George Bernard Shaw)  

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." (Khalil Gibran)

"He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future." (Quevedo)

"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us." (Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich, "Religio Medici")

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." (Napoleon Hill)

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we have a clear picture of it." (Benedict Spinoza)

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us." (Eugène Ionesco)

📔Week 2016-49: Journal

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." (Orison S. Marden)

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." (Benjamin Franklin)

"All the wonders you seek are within yourself." (Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich)

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." (Rumi)

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." (Robert H. Schuller)

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." (Saint Francis of Assisi)

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." (Earl Nightingale)

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." (Chinese saying)

"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." (Tony Robbins)

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." (Mark Twain)

📔Week 2016-48: Journal

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." (Albert Einstein)

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." (James Oppenheim)

"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried." (Frank Tyger)

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." (Kurt Vonnegut, “Breakfast of Champions,” 1973)

"We can cope with anything if we have the tools and can draw on our inner power. But there is no sun without rain; no joy without spiritual awareness; and no growth without the knowledge that help is always available and we can deal with life’s difficulties." (Joy Ward)

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value." (Jim Rohn)

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." (Maya Angelou)

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." (William Arthur Ward)

"No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage." (Epictetus)

"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day." (Indian saying)

📔Week 2016-47: Journal

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." (Nolan Bushnell)

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom" (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically." (Henry David Thoreau)

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team." (Benjamin F. Fairless)

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists." (Anita Brookner)

"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom." (Samuel Smiles)

"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." (John Kenneth Galbraith)

"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry." (Samuel Smiles)

"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it." (Solomon ibn Gabirol)

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom." (Friedrich von Schiller)

📔Week 2016-46: Journal

"Every person has only one purpose: to find perfection in goodness. Therefore, only that knowledge is necessary which leads us to this." (Leo Tolstoy)

"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

"Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions - so find out how to light their fires." (Jeff Dewar)

"Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning." (Bergen Evans)

"If all knowledge were good, then pursuit of every sort of knowledge would be useful. But many false meditations are disguised as good and useful knowledge; therefore, be strict in selecting the knowledge you want to acquire." (Leo Tolstoy)

"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something." (Leo Buscaglia)

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and create a new ending." (Maria Robinson)

"The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life." (Seneca the Younger)

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell)

"You should study more to understand that you know little." (Michel de Montaigne)

📔Week 2016-45: Journal

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." (Confucius)

"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)

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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

“The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness." (Jean Cocteau)

"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." (Blaise Pascal)

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

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably." (Bertolt Brecht)

"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." ( 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)