"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."

-- Louis D. Brandeis

#Wisdom Quotes #Lying Quotes #Expression Quotes

“It's important to me that I don't take myself too seriously and I have fun with every experience in life. That is the whole point.”
“Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.”
“We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.”
“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”

Source : "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 188), 1485.
“I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.”

Source : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com
“If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60, 1985.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
“Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too quietly for her to hear them. Some would argue that things were going so insiduously wrong that the neurons themselves initiated events that would lead to their own destruction. Whether it was molecular murder or cellular suicide, they were unable to warn her of what was happening before they died.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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