“Almost all thinking men who have studied the laws which govern the animate and the inanimate world around us, agree that the belief in the existence of one Supreme Creator, possessed of infinite wisdom and power, is open to far less difficulties than the supposition of the absence of any cause, or o…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”— Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, goodreads.com
“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”— William Faulkner, amazon.com
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“I want to be wise. And you know how you get wise? By screwing up.”— Myra McEntire, firstdraftwithsarahenni.tumblr.com
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it…”— Harvey Mackay, goodreads.com
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”— Confucius, amazon.com
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”— Magdalena Abakanowicz, lc.edu
“The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search—for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com