Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
#twisdom #critique
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Category Archives: human community
The Living Listen
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
Heraclitus
#twisdom #listening #mindfulness
Wealthy Poverty
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
Kant
#twisdom #wealth
Crazy Times
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#twisdom #insanity #politics
Thinking’s Paradox
Never am I less alone than when I am by myself, never am I more active then when I do nothing.
Cato
#twisdom #thinking #action
Timeless Works
Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden
#twisdom #timelessness
Docile Ignorance
The ignorant are governable.
J.J. Most
#twisdom #ignorance
Language Being
New language, new person.
Arab proverb
#twisdom #language
Live You
Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.
Emerson
#twisdom #authenticity
Honest Faith
There lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds.
Tennyson
#twisdom #humility
