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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active read more
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
You are not in business to be popular.
You are not in business to be popular.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the read more
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
