The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl JungI think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
Ruth Bader GinsburgChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawKnowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl JungNo intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.
Muhammad AliReason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Blaise PascalGreat indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich NietzscheIf I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.
Jocko WillinkThe most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen KellerI never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert FrostThe essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma GandhiThe knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise PascalThere isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
Marilyn MonroeIgnorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David ThoreauAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestTo suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
PlatoI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnHow prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander PopeA fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareThe stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
Alice MunroThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
AristotleThe wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao TzuWisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil GibranThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Barack ObamaWhen I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.
Clint EastwoodThe superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
ConfuciusI have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan PoeI’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.
Elvis PresleyGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John MuirNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
DiogenesWe don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
Kamala HarrisI’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt CobainTime discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMusic is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon BonaparteTo understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand RussellEntire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
PlatoHeat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William ShakespeareThe cautious seldom err.
ConfuciusMany sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Joyce MeyerThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin DisraeliWe are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. BushA wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel JohnsonI always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar WildeThose whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar WildeOld age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore RooseveltIn this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerTruth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis BaconI am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
ConfuciusMaybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.
David ByrneWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. RooseveltAll knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Leonardo da VinciThe wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
AristotleThe last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.
Wayne DyerHe who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.
Robert GreeneThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl JungIt is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William JamesI believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken