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Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.
Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
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.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to read more
Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
