"Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life."

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Morris Raphael Cohen

#Wisdom Quotes #Flames Quotes #Textbooks Quotes

“You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.”
“Everything comes from the great book of nature.”

Source : "Antonio Gaudí". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1984.
“A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.”

Source : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media
“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.”
“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

Source : As quoted in obituaries, September 7, 1962.
“So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single moment where I thought to myself, Oh, I need to write about Margaret Cavendish. She just kept taking over the book I thought I was writing.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?”

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