knowledge-vs-jewels
Hearing from Hannah
Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
Proverbs 3:13
For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with it.
Proverbs 8:11
How much better to get wisdom than gold, and good judgment than silver!
Proverb 16:16
Wise words are more valuable than much gold and many rubies.
Proverbs 20:15
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An excellent anti-linguistic-discrimination limerick for Grammar Day:
If you argue that language is weaker
and the outlook for English is bleaker,
consider the source
of your silent discourse.
Are you judging the speech, or the speaker?
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What good is it to seek our happiness in someone else's opinion if we can find it within ourselves?
Rouseau, First Discourse, Part Two
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues; and those who proceed but very sleepy can make much greater progress , if they always follow the right path, than those who hurry and stray from it.
Descartes
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners
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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via bookmania)
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I think that literature is not literature, it’s life, living.
Clarice Lispector II Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (via oiseauperdu)
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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After all, what would be 'beautiful' if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: 'I am ugly'?
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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Respect from others is useless if you don't respect yourself.
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"What do you know?"
"I don't understand anything and I no longer want to understand anything."
Fyodor Dostovesky, The Brothers Karamazov
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My brain: You don't need more books.
My heart: But...more books.
My brain: Valid point.
My wallet: *weeps*
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
#quote#john steinbeck#east of eden#perfect#perfection#good#character#action#imperfect#imperfection#evil#goodness#characteristics
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
Khaled Housseini, And The Mountains Echoed
#quote#khaled housseini#and the mountains echoed#beauty#beautiful#gift#giving#unmerited#merit#random#stupid#stupidly
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