wisdom

wisdom

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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