Wednesday, November 30, 2022

November Words of Wisdom

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. --Marcus Aurelius
 
If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. --Thomas Edison
 
The truth, manfully spoken, can never be unwholesome. --Robert Dabney
 
Tradition is the means by which the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present. --T.S. Eliot

You cannot heal the physical without also still working on the mental, and the emotional, and the spiritual. --Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram
 
We are the most informed people in the history of civilization - and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty. --Billy Graham 
 
Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown. Ask yourself why you keep going to the circus. --Unknown

When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge. --Jordan Peterson

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. --Edmund Burke

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things endure. --Nicolas Gomez Burke
 
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. --Thomas Sowell
 
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. --Voltaire 

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. --Frederick Douglass


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