![A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/a-wise-man-in-china-asked-his-gardener-to-plant-a-shrub-the-gardener-objected-th.jpg)
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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
wise forever action
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise. Bill Crawford
wise african-american wise-words
A word to the wise ain't... Bill Cosby
wise heart victory
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
wise our-generation generations
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
wise art easy
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
wise challenges violence
Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
wise cousin rap
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death. Big Pun
wise children heart
As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. C. S. Lewis
wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
science thinking goal
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole. Carl Sagan
science fiction advantage
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
science survivor kicking
When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.
science columbus usual
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
science thinking people
I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.
science perfect instruments
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
science interesting imperfection
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.
science way fool
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
science technology science-physics
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science