"Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being."

-- Hazel Hawke

#Wisdom Quotes #Communication Quotes #People Quotes

“Resistants were on the right side, SalÃ² Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.”

Source : Il Corriere della Sera, September 13, 2008.
“But death we are, and death we've always been.”
“Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.”

Source : Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.77, Writer's Digest Books
“With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me. That's something that seems to happen as well when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.”

Source : Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.17, Four Elephants Press
“It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1899). “The Map of Life: Conduct and Character”
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

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