Quotes about "Life Wisdom"

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. ”

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. ”

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. ”

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. ”

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years' experience. ”

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. ”

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. ”

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility. ”

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means. ”

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted? ”