#words-strung-together-perfectly
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight... See more
Rhett Allain • 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
Jawed Naqvi • The crooked timber of Modi’s India
Emmanuel Kant
But anything that grows your soul takes time. There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight; you can only amble your way to wisdom.
The walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom | Justine Toh
Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast
Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast
If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree.