Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves read more

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap read more

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David read more

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his read more

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its read more

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.