We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. —Charlie Munger More about this quote Tags: learning time ideas destruction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You have to work hard on it. Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side. It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents. This is a great mental discipline. —Charlie Munger More about this quote Tags: opinion learning knowledge discipline Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you love something that somebody does – some art, some words, some sounds – you tell them that you love it. You tell everyone how much you love it, repeatedly and enthusiastically. Don’t save your appreciation for later, or worry about wearing people out with your passion. Because the happy truth is this: If a piece of art truly moves you, you will never, ever run out of new adjectives to express how much you love it. Getting to love someone’s art is one of the very finest parts of being alive. —Paul Constant More about this quote Tags: love life gratitude happiness art appreciation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let there be such oneness between us that when one cries, the other tastes salt. —Rosabelle Believe More about this quote Tags: love sadness tears unity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: justice love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. … Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. … It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: honesty history disappointment progress failure work laws illusions delusions resilience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. …This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains… an uprooted small corner of evil. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More about this quote Tags: humanity politics evil good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection. … Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: money corruption affection healing wounds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor money poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: democracy money vulgarity prices wages Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. … Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. —Camille Paglia More about this quote Tags: enjoyment feminism nature capitalism debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? —Ayn Rand More about this quote Tags: evil money root cause Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: technology morality money fire Bible socialism monarchy pornography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: government traffic regulation libertarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email