WOW 3 -Explain It To A Six-Year-Old
There is so much all of us can learn from Albert Einstein. This is maybe one of the most important ones. Continue reading WOW 3 -Explain It To A Six-Year-Old
Category: Words of Wisdom
Learning from those wiser than us
WOW 2 – Their Not Listening, Still…
Socrates was born almost 2500 years ago in Greece. During his life he certainly had a lot to teach us in the 21st century. I know I am a philosophy nerd and I certainly take his words above to heart. Today’s internet allows anyone who cares, access to most of his written words. Continue reading WOW 2 – Their Not Listening, Still…
WOW1 – Don’t Stop Playing
Because I don’t want to grow old, I have been playing with ways to present you my Quotes & Images posts. PQC is how I am categorize this variety of posts, PQC stands for Pictures, Quotes, & Commentary Continue reading WOW1 – Don’t Stop Playing
Vegetating In One Little Corner of Earth
I might have become a member of the MAGA cult if I had remained in the small rural Indiana town where I grew up the rest of my life. I would never have known just how big the world was. Continue reading Vegetating In One Little Corner of Earth
Will It Ever Be?
Will wrote the words above about one-hundred years ago, and it couldn’t be more true than it is today. Will humanity ever be ready for truth or harmony? Continue reading Will It Ever Be?
I Have No Desire…
I love discovering people who have put themselves out there in order to further a long much delayed cause. Simone de Beauvoir is certainly one of them. Continue reading I Have No Desire…
On The Present Moment
My anxiety level has just been too high lately, and I am trying to do something about it. In my studies of religions I have not put much effort into Buddhism but I know it started somewhere around 600 years before its Muslim and Christian counterparts. When I came across the quote above I realized it might help in this area. Continue reading On The Present Moment
Get Rid Of Both Parties
Will made the above quote almost a hundred years ago, but I kinda think it’s more appropriate today than it was back then. Continue reading Get Rid Of Both Parties
Especially Now…
A Perfect Life??
Too many people are constantly on the search for the “Perfect Life”. They seem to think that “if I just get [this] or [that] everything will be perfect”. Of course, I kinda see it differently. Continue reading A Perfect Life??
I Have Done My Share
A biography of Einstein was the first “big boy” book I read. I was nine-years-old at the time but the story of Einstein clung to me in the decades since. In fact, at such an early age I was convinced … Continue reading I Have Done My Share
Curiosity killed the cat, but maybe made a genius
Curiosity, for Einstein, was a method. He would sit with a question for a very long time. His thought experiments were intense Continue reading Curiosity killed the cat, but maybe made a genius
The Cards Life Deals You…
I know it depends on your age but to me they brought to mind a popuar song by Kenny Rogers in 1978 entitled “The Gambler”. Who knew the words came from Voltaire in the early 1700s. Continue reading The Cards Life Deals You…
With All Your Old Nonsense…
Quote For Today Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin … Continue reading With All Your Old Nonsense…
… Know How To Swim
I wasn’t one to ever admit that I read Ann Landers gossip column, but she did have a certain wit about her that drew me in. The above quote is certainly one of those. Continue reading … Know How To Swim
Being Wrong
There are just too many people who are risk-averse in this world today. They think being wrong is some grave thing to be avoided if at all possible. Then there are those of us who see being wrong is simply part of the creative process. I personally am wrong more than I am right. Continue reading Being Wrong
Fight For Peace…
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. Continue reading Fight For Peace…
In The Hands Of A Few…
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. Continue reading In The Hands Of A Few…
Totally Satisfied??
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Edison- Continue reading Totally Satisfied??
Tip Our Cups Over…
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ”
-Ray Bradbury- Continue reading Tip Our Cups Over…
About Our Continuous Wars
People talk peace, but men give their live’s work to war. It won’t stop ’til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war.
-Will Rogers. 1931- Continue reading About Our Continuous Wars
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