Wisdom

This way of thinking is, of course, not only countercultural but downright heretical in our own era of blame-thirsty opinions ossified into identities — because understanding is a dynamic thing, evolving as it integrates and relates new information, it is the antithesis to the stasis of opinion and an antidote to it, a way of remembering that we... See more

As the retired general Jim Mattis and Bing West once wrote, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you

All things are small, quickly changing, and short-lived

the person living the longest life loses the same thing as the person living the shortest life. They both lose the present moment, which is all they have. You can't really lose what you don't have.

She tended to think of thirty-three as the age of burgeoning wisdom. It was the age at which she had begun, finally, to know herself.