Wisdom Quotes - Page 147

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word "Explosion" alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.