“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
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Wise Quotes — page 144 of 916
“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
“Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.”
“After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.”
“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”
“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”
“Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.”
“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”
“Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.”
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
“When in doubt tell the truth.”
“It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.”
“Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.”
“There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.”
“I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.”
“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.”