The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Milan Kundera
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that. -
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. -
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. -
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. -
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
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- He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
- Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.