Quote of the Day -- David Foster Wallace

Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about "teaching you how to think" is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

-- David Foster Wallace

Quote of the Day -- Adam Grant

A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts. 

A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right. 

The joy of learning something new eventually exceeds the pain of unlearning something old.

-- Adam Grant

Quote of the Day -- Japanese Wisdom

 

Quote of the Day -- Anne Lamott

 ... the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

-- Anne Lamott

Quote of the Day -- Luther Standing Bear

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

-- Luther Standing Bear

Quote of the Day -- Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

-- Bertrand Russell

Quote of the Day -- Kevin Kelly

A good question is not concerned with a correct answer. A good question cannot be answered immediately. A good question challenges existing answers. A good question is one you badly want answered once you hear it, but had no inkling you cared before it was asked. A good question creates new territory of thinking. A good question reframes its own answers. A good question is the seed of innovation in science, technology, art, politics, and business. A good question is a probe, a what-if scenario. A good question skirts on the edge of what is known and not known, neither silly nor obvious. A good question cannot be predicted. A good question will be the sign of an educated mind. A good question is one that generates many other good questions. A good question may be the last job a machine will learn to do. A good question is what humans are for. 

-- Kevin Kelly

Quote of the Day -- Arthur C Clarke

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. 

-- Arthur C Clarke

Quote of the Day -- Alexander Pope

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. 

― Alexander Pope

Quote of the Day -- Heraclitus

Much learning does not teach understanding. 

-- Heraclitus

Quote of the Day -- Aristotle

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. 

-- Aristotle

Quote of the Day -- Laozi

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.  

-- Laozi

Quote of the Day -- Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science [and technology] gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  

-- Isaac Asimov

Quote of the Day -- George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. 

-- George Santayana

Quote of the Day - Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly. 

-- Michel de Montaigne

Quote of the Day -- Winston Churchill

All wisdom is not new wisdom. 

-- Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day -- Francois de La Roçhefoucauld

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

-- Francois de La Roçhefoucauld

Quote of the Day -- Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day -- Sir Isaac Newton

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

-- Sir Isaac Newton

Quote of the Day -- Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

-- Leonardo da Vinci