Quotes about "Global & Cultural Wisdom"

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings. ”

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. ”

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. ”

One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series. ”

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends. ”

In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist. ”

Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies. ”

I lived in Japan for eight years before moving to New York, but I was looking forward to a place like America to change my opinion on things and force me to come up with new perspectives. ”

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. ”

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ”