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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” —Sydney J. Harris
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Aristotle makes the distinction between three chief intellectual virtues, including scientific knowledge, art, and practical wisdom, which he names episteme, techne, and phronesis.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Each school has its own take on wisdom, but the same themes appear in all of them: The need to ask questions.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
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Mike "Bagel" • 1 card
Morality, then, seems to be concerned with three things. Firstly, with fair play and harmony between individuals. Secondly, with what might be called tidying up or harmonising the things inside each individual. Thirdly, with the general purpose of human life as a whole: what man was made for: what course the whole fleet ought to be on: what tune th
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Joe Edelman • Human Values
Wisdom comes from God, humanity cannot and think hard enough to produce it.
If that is so, if we cannot know answers to our deepest questions such as ‘why do good things happen to bad people’, true wisdom is trusting God when we don’t know why.
Lessons from the book of Job.
Doing the right thing almost always takes courage, just as discipline is impossible without the wisdom to know what is worth choosing.
Ryan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
‘Virtue makes the goal right, practical wisdom teaches how to reach it,’ Aristotle says, and habits formed in developing character will help to identify the right goals. If we do not have, or do not yet have, the practical wisdom to work out how to reach those goals, we must imitate those who do have such wisdom. And Aristotle concedes that ‘moral
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