From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe andContinue reading “Quote of the day 09/30/24”
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Quote of the day 09/15/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.”
Quote of the day 06/12/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “We have to learn the art of stopping — stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us.”
Quote of the day 06/02/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.”
Quote of the day 06/01/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.”
Quote of the day 05/04/24
From Kurt Vonnegut: “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Quote of the day 04/19/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
Quote of the day 04/04/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Quote of the day 02/28/24
From James Joyce: “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
Quote of the day 02/25/24
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
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