"All truly wise thoughts have been thought..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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“The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.”
“Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.”
“The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”
More on Wisdom
“A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.”
“Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.”
“There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!”
More on Experience
“A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.”
“Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!”
“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.”