Wisdom Takes Work Quotes

“Lincoln told of a prank where he tried to shit in a sleeping friend’s hat…only to find that his friend”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“How much pride you expose to view,” Plato said as he watched this childish performance”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“To remain as I am is impossible,” Lincoln said at his lowest ebb. “I must die or be better”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Voltaire said that if they can make you believe absurdities”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“As the Roman expression”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“This was the insight of the philosopher René Girard”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“There’s no such writer,” she said”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“But no one forced him to immediately lay off more than six thousand employees (80 percent of the workforce)”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“It would take several months and many millions in legal fees before he could be that fire-breathing dragon. Getting what he wished”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Imagine that you have died,” Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations. “Now take what’s left of your life and live it properly.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“His fellow students who could repeat what they’d learned from their teachers? They were no more than parrots. “To know by heart is not to know,” Montaigne would say later”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“You cannot allow the events of life to destroy your hope. Nor can you allow knowledge and facts to do it either.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Grasp that you will never grasp it all.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“«No son las cosas las que nos perturban”
― Ryan Holiday, La sabiduría es la recompensa: Observa. Reflexiona. Aplica.

“El fin de ser es saber; y si dices que el fin del conocimiento es la acción”
― Ryan Holiday, La sabiduría es la recompensa: Observa. Reflexiona. Aplica.

“To philosophize, Cicero—who himself was put to death by assassins on a dusty road outside Rome—had written, is to learn how to die.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Life is a school in which we live all our days,” Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“There is no freedom without wisdom, there is no wisdom without freedom.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“And this, too, shall pass away.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald reminds us, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“physicist John Wheeler said that as our island of knowledge grows, so does the shoreline of ignorance,”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Disce quasi semper victurus Vive quasi cras moriturus Learn as if you were going to live forever, Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“forty-two. At the same age, Neil Peart, then probably the greatest drummer in the world, started taking lessons from Freddie Gruber, a jazz teacher who had worked with many of his peers. “What is a master but a master student?” Peart said with a shrug. “And if that’s true, then there’s a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Criticism may not be agreeable,” Churchill once said, “but it is necessary; it fulfills the same function as pain in the human body, it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“From the sublime to the ridiculous,” Voltaire observed, “is only one small step.”[*]”
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“We alone among all species have been given a powerful mind and the gift of reason—but how do we use it? To make up reasons for what we already want to do.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Merton’s best books, Seeds of Contemplation, a spiritual classic.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“Socrates said at one point. “What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of the lessons that history has to teach us,” Aldous Huxley once said.”
― Ryan Holiday, Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.