"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."

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Source : Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.97, Image

Anthony de Mello

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“Neutrality is not politics.”

Source : "Histoire diplomatique de la Grèce de 1821 à nos jours, tome V" by Édouard Driault, Michel Lhéritier, (p. 164), 1926.
“There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people â€” by us and also by the enemy â€” but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.
“What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.”
“You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.”
“The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.”
“Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.”
“I was just, you know, kind of getting racist jokes, kind of being isolated from the group. So it was definitely hard. I would come home at night and just cry my eyes out,”
“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

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