We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when […]
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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Great short quote and quotation by: Dora Russell ,
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us […]
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David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. Great short quote and quotation by: David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair , US biologist, educator, & ichthyologist (1851 – 1931)
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Great short quote and […]