Famous Quotes About wisdom

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

You get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. Once you learn that, youll never be the same again.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and have forgotten the gift.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.