Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~ Doug Larson
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Wisdom →
My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.
~ Naval Ravikant
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Wisdom →
I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; They start by witnessing our story. They take the anecdotes, rationalizations, and episodes we tell, and see us in a noble struggle. They see the way we’re navigating the dialectics of life—intimacy versus independence, control versus uncertainty—and understand that our current self is just where we are right now, part of a long continuum of growth.
~ David Brooks
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Youthful exuberance →
You are only young once. After that you have to think up some other excuse.
~ Billy Arthur
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Too late →
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
~ Alexander Pope
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Wisdom →
Clear and simple →
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Perspective →
Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
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Intelligence →
Common sense →
But I am still optimist enough to credit life with invincibility, I am still ready to bet that the non-human otherness at the root of man’s being will ultimately triumph over the all too human selves who frame the ideologies and engineer the collective suicides. For our survival, if we do survive, we shall be less beholden to our common sense […] that to our caterpillar- and cicadea-sense, to intelligence, in other words, as it operates on the organic level.
~ Aldous Huxley
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