Nostr notes by Wisdom in Space

What's great about this country is that America started the ...

2026-03-01T19:00:10Z

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
-- Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AndyWarhol #Equality #Television #USA

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Hammock #KinderhookCreek #NewYork

The way we see the problem IS the problem. -- Stephen R. Covey ...

2025-07-08T03:00:08Z

The way we see the problem IS the problem.
-- Stephen R. Covey

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #StephenRCovey #ProblemSolving

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are ...

2025-07-07T19:00:08Z

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Fanaticism #Fools #Stupidity #Wisdom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man ...

2025-07-07T07:00:12Z

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Humor #Ignorance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -- Helen Keller ⬆ ...

2025-07-06T23:00:09Z

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HelenKeller #Education #Ideas

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for ...

2025-07-06T11:00:10Z

The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for change gets greater and greater (to cope with changes in population, pollution, etc. and to make full use of our new technologies) but the possibility of change gets less and less because everything is already committed.
-- Edward deBono

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwarddeBono #Possibility #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man ...

2025-07-05T15:00:07Z

A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
-- Charles Darwin (on the existence of God)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CharlesDarwin #God #Religion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life ...

2025-07-05T11:00:07Z

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephConrad #Illusions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or ...

2025-07-04T07:00:08Z

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasHHuxley #Agnosticism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

The first indications of the intelligence of a ruler are given by ...

2025-07-02T15:00:07Z

The first indications of the intelligence of a ruler are given by the quality of the men around him. If they are capable and loyal, he should always be taken to be shrewd, because he was able to recognize their ability and retain their loyalty. But if they are mediocre and disloyal, a low estimate of him will never be mistaken, because the most important error he has made is to choose them.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NiccoloMachiavelli #Leadership

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on ...

2025-07-02T07:00:07Z

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
-- Malcolm Forbes

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MalcolmForbes #Business

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

We Americans want contradictory things from the health-care ...

2025-07-01T15:00:06Z

We Americans want contradictory things from the health-care system; we want unlimited medical care without unlimited spending.... We want limits for society as a whole, but not for any of the individuals in it.... We remain hostage to our own optimism that all things are possible. But choices exist, and, even if we evade them, they will not evade us.
-- Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertJSamuelson #Choices #Medicine

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential ...

2025-06-27T19:00:06Z

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Certainty #Skepticism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

The real University... has no specific location. It owns no ...

2025-06-25T15:00:04Z

The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues.... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
-- Robert Pirsig

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertPirsig #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance ...

2025-04-09T03:00:07Z

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaacAsimov #Ignorance #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts ...

2025-04-08T23:00:04Z

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NathanielBorenstein #Computers #EndoftheWorld

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

The more we do, the more we can do. -- William Hazlitt ⬆ ...

2025-04-08T19:00:04Z

The more we do, the more we can do.
-- William Hazlitt

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamHazlitt #Achievement

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. ...

2025-04-08T15:00:04Z

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NielsBohr #Clarity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Okefenokee #Swamp #Canoe #Georgia

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and ...

2025-04-08T07:00:04Z

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
-- Isaiah Berlin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IsaiahBerlin #Certainty #Insecurity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

The relentless flood of information we receive does not ...

2025-04-07T07:00:05Z

The relentless flood of information we receive does not necessarily equal an understanding of our situation... It doesn't matter if you hear constantly, night after night, about poor children or abused elders. It matters that you hear about them in some way both deep enough and complicated enough that you'll go out and do something useful.
-- Bill McKibben

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BillMcKibben #Information

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Graffiti

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now ...

2025-04-07T03:00:04Z

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Skłodowska Curie

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarieSkodowskaCurie #Fear #Life #Understanding

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

Quality Improvement: You do not have to do this... survival is ...

2025-04-06T19:00:04Z

Quality Improvement: You do not have to do this... survival is not compulsory.
-- W. Edwards Deming

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WEdwardsDeming #Quality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

The translation of the need for learning into the demand for ...

2025-04-06T11:00:04Z

The translation of the need for learning into the demand for schooling and the conversion of the quality of growing up into the price tag of a professional treatment changes the meaning of 'knowledge' from a term that designates intimacy, intercourse, and life experience into one that designates professionally packaged products, marketable entitlements, and abstract values.
-- Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IvanIllich #Education

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Life is a fight against entropy. When in doubt, organize ...

2025-04-05T19:00:05Z

Life is a fight against entropy. When in doubt, organize something. You'll feel more alive.
-- Tristan Harward (@trisweb)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TristanHarward #Entropy #Life #Organization

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

We must confront the injustice of having some people go without ...

2025-04-05T07:00:04Z

We must confront the injustice of having some people go without [healthcare] because of greed.
-- Victor Montori (Why We Revolt)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VictorMontori #Greed #Healthcare #Injustice

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. ...

2025-04-05T03:00:05Z

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You cannot blow an uncertain trumpet.
-- Theodore M. Hesburgh

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TheodoreMHesburgh #Leadership

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

Any sufficiently advanced render is indistinguishable from ...

2025-04-04T15:00:04Z

Any sufficiently advanced render is indistinguishable from reality.
-- Anonymous (The Archillect)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Computers #Reality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of this ...

2025-04-03T23:00:05Z

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of this meeting.
-- Bryan Donaldson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BryanDonaldson #Humor #Meetings

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We ...

2025-04-03T15:00:05Z

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
-- Samuel Smiles

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelSmiles #Discovery #Mistakes #Wisdom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and ...

2025-04-03T11:00:05Z

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryShelley #Hate #Love

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

The paradoxical challenge today is that companies are never sure ...

2025-04-01T15:00:05Z

The paradoxical challenge today is that companies are never sure they're asking the right questions, confronting the real problems... The Net is not as much a way to nail down definitive answers as it is a place to ask deeper questions -- not a solution, but a larger conundrum.
-- Chris Locke

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChrisLocke #Business #Internet

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

The things that we love tell us what we are. -- Thomas Aquinas ...

2025-03-31T23:00:04Z

The things that we love tell us what we are.
-- Thomas Aquinas

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasAquinas #Life #Love

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

When we want to incentivize rich people, we give them money. When ...

2025-03-30T11:00:04Z

When we want to incentivize rich people, we give them money. When we want to incentivize poor people, we take it away.
-- Anonymous

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Incentives #Poverty #Wealth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should ...

2025-03-30T07:00:04Z

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
-- Robert Schumann

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertSchumann #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Dinosaur #Tracks #Colorado

Those who lack moral courage will compensate by feigning physical ...

2025-03-29T19:00:04Z

Those who lack moral courage will compensate by feigning physical courage.
-- Jack Brown (@drjackbrown)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JackBrown #Courage #Cowardice

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah

Efficient-market theorists will tell you that in a fully ...

2025-03-29T11:00:06Z

Efficient-market theorists will tell you that in a fully connected, real-time information environment, the only way to add value is to respond more quickly than anyone else to unpredictable events -- not to enshrine what you knew yesterday in code that you hope to keep running for months or years.
-- Peter Coffee

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PeterCoffee #Computers

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any ...

2025-03-29T03:00:04Z

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
-- Albert Camus

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertCamus #Charm #Negotiation

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed ...

2025-03-28T23:00:05Z

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
-- George Orwell

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeOrwell #Profit #War

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not ...

2025-03-28T19:00:04Z

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DanielPatrickMoynihan #Culture #Conservatism #Liberalism #Politics #Society

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MississippiRiver #PikesPeak #Iowa

Place our dispute on a continuum, it becomes a matter of degree. ...

2025-03-28T11:00:04Z

Place our dispute on a continuum, it becomes a matter of degree. Let's talk. Frame our dispute as a dichotomy, it becomes a matter of identity. Let's go to war.
-- Philip E. Tetlock

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PhilipETetlock #Agreement #Disagreement #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

As the sailor sails his winds, so we must sail our moods. -- ...

2025-03-27T15:00:04Z

As the sailor sails his winds, so we must sail our moods.
-- Richard Bode

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardBode #Life #Moods

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

Listen more than you talk... Be careful: you are the means you ...

2025-03-27T07:00:05Z

Listen more than you talk... Be careful: you are the means you employ... Despair guarantees the wrong outcome.
-- Anonymous

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Despair #Listening

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give ...

2025-03-27T03:00:04Z

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.
-- Ruth Gordon

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RuthGordon #Life #Luck

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save ...

2025-03-26T23:00:04Z

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
-- Sherwood Anderson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SherwoodAnderson #Art

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth -- ...

2025-03-26T11:00:05Z

It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth -- this indifference to how things really are -- that I regard as the essence of bullshit. ... The bullshitter ... does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
-- Harry G. Frankfurt (On Bullshit (2005))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HarryGFrankfurt #Bullshit #Lies #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sealions #Beach #Galapagos

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious ...

2025-03-26T07:00:04Z

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
-- Samuel Butler

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelButler #Anxiety #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

If work was a good thing the rich would have it all and not let ...

2025-03-25T19:00:05Z

If work was a good thing the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
-- Elmore Leonard

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ElmoreLeonard #Work

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #Canoe #Minnesota

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. -- Madame ...

2025-03-25T07:00:04Z

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
-- Madame de Stael

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MadamedeStael #Manners

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that ...

2025-03-25T03:00:04Z

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MartinLutherKingJr #Activism #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

A man is what he thinks about all day long. -- Ralph Waldo ...

2025-03-23T23:00:04Z

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Thought

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

To give real service you must add something which cannot be ...

2025-03-22T19:00:04Z

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Integrity #Sincerity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is ...

2025-03-22T15:00:04Z

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
-- Thomas Paine

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasPaine #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and ...

2025-03-22T11:00:04Z

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
-- Hubert Reeves

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HubertReeves #God #Humanity #Nature

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the ...

2025-03-22T03:00:04Z

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
-- Stephen Hawking

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #StephenHawking #Ignorance #Knowledge

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in ...

2025-03-21T19:00:05Z

One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
-- Francis Weld Peabody (1927)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisWeldPeabody #Physicians

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where ...

2025-03-21T15:00:04Z

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
-- Irwin Corey

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IrwinCorey #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sealions #Beach #Galapagos

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of ...

2025-03-21T11:00:04Z

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
-- Hannah Arendt

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Meaning #Storytelling

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

Everything in excess is opposed to nature. -- Hippocrates ⬆ ...

2025-03-20T23:00:04Z

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
-- Hippocrates

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Hippocrates #Excess #Health

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #WhiteRimTrail #Canyonlands #Utah

Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised. -- ...

2025-03-20T19:00:04Z

Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised.
-- Robert Frost

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertFrost #Change #Fences

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. -- Swedish Proverb ...

2025-03-20T15:00:04Z

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
-- Swedish Proverb

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SwedishProverb #Anxiety #Fear

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a ...

2025-03-20T07:00:04Z

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
-- E. H. Gombrich

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EHGombrich #Illusion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to ...

2025-03-19T23:00:04Z

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Stupidity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo ...

2025-03-19T19:00:04Z

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PabloPicasso #Computers

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #PitcherPlants #Flowers #Florida

Modern communication isn't about truth. It's about a ...

2025-03-19T11:00:04Z

Modern communication isn't about truth. It's about a resonant narrative. The myth of PR is that you will educate and inform people. No! The public wants to be told, in a story, who to like and who to hate.
-- Eric Dezenhall

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EricDezenhall #Communication #Narrative #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God ...

2025-03-19T03:00:04Z

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SorenKierkegaard #Arrogance #Skepticism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

My personal plan has been not to act. I let such annoyances die ...

2025-03-17T23:00:04Z

My personal plan has been not to act. I let such annoyances die with me and my machine.
-- Bruce Rathe (comment on junk email and chain letters)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BruceRathe #Email

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

Modern economists are used to measuring the "standard of ...

2025-03-17T11:00:04Z

Modern economists are used to measuring the "standard of living" by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is "better off" than a man who consumes less.... Since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption... The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic creativity. Modern economics, on the other hand, considers consumption to be the sole end and purpose of all economic activity.
-- E. F. Schumacher (Small Is Beautiful)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EFSchumacher #Consumption #Economics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

Metadata is surveillance. -- Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath) ...

2025-03-17T07:00:04Z

Metadata is surveillance.
-- Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BruceSchneier #Data #Surveillance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

The life of the creative man is lead, directed, and controlled by ...

2025-03-16T23:00:04Z

The life of the creative man is lead, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
-- Saul Steinberg

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SaulSteinberg #Boredom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Okefenokee #Swamp #Canoe #Georgia

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the ...

2025-03-16T15:00:04Z

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.
-- Daniel Boorstin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DanielBoorstin #Advertising #Deception

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

Physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor. -- Rudolf ...

2025-03-16T07:00:04Z

Physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor.
-- Rudolf Virchow

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RudolfVirchow #Health #Physicians

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MississippiRiver #PikesPeak #Iowa

Only the mediocre are always at their best. -- Jean Giraudoux ⬆ ...

2025-03-15T07:00:05Z

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JeanGiraudoux #Mediocrity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

The first time you do something, it's science. The second ...

2025-03-15T03:00:04Z

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time it's just being a technician.
-- Clifford Stoll (TED Talk (2006))

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CliffordStoll #Discovery #Engineering #Science #Technology

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you ...

2025-03-14T19:00:05Z

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-- Dale Carnegie

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DaleCarnegie #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to ...

2025-03-14T15:00:05Z

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FScottFitzgerald #Family

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

A lecture course is mostly a way of putting butts in the seats ...

2025-03-14T11:00:04Z

A lecture course is mostly a way of putting butts in the seats and getting away with some money.
-- Roger Schank

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RogerSchank #Education

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

Attention without feeling... is only a report. -- Mary Oliver ⬆ ...

2025-03-14T07:00:04Z

Attention without feeling... is only a report.
-- Mary Oliver

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryOliver #Attention #Emotion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. -- Anais Nin ⬆ ...

2025-03-14T03:00:04Z

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
-- Anais Nin

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnaisNin #Happiness #Pain

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The ...

2025-03-13T23:00:05Z

There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
-- Will Rogers

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WillRogers #Life #Experience

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than ...

2025-03-13T11:00:04Z

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Answers #Questions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds ...

2025-03-13T07:00:05Z

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MauriceMaeterlinck #Genius #Mediocrity #Progress

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Why does it seem like every organization that uses the word ...

2025-03-12T07:00:04Z

Why does it seem like every organization that uses the word "truth" in their name is almost sure to be its enemy?
-- J. T. Eberhard (patheos.com)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JTEberhard #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

Be it religion, love under all its forms, literature, or art, ...

2025-03-11T19:00:05Z

Be it religion, love under all its forms, literature, or art, there is not a single spiritual force that does not become an object of commercial exploitation.
-- Etienne Gilson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EtienneGilson #Exploitation #Religion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Books

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde ⬆ ...

2025-03-10T07:00:05Z

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OscarWilde #Patriotism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

At certain times a nation can afford what at other times, with no ...

2025-03-09T03:00:04Z

At certain times a nation can afford what at other times, with no less money, it cannot afford. This is a puzzling paradox.
-- Stuart Chase

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #StuartChase #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Graffiti

Q: "I still don't get bitcoin?" A: Imagine if keeping ...

2025-03-08T19:00:05Z

Q: "I still don't get bitcoin?" A: Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin.
-- Yolo Contendere (@theophite)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #YoloContendere #Cryptocurrency

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this ...

2025-03-08T07:00:04Z

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
-- Shirley Chisholm

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ShirleyChisholm #Life #Privilege #Service

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #RoseFalls #Minnesota

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned ...

2025-03-07T07:00:04Z

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Eric Hoffer

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EricHoffer #Change #Learning

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah

If only closed minds came with closed mouths. -- Richard Feynman ...

2025-03-07T03:00:04Z

If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
-- Richard Feynman

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression. -- H. ...

2025-03-06T19:00:04Z

When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Fanaticism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

No young man should go into politics if he wants to get rich or ...

2025-03-06T15:00:05Z

No young man should go into politics if he wants to get rich or if he expects an adequate reward for his services. An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
-- Harry S. Truman (Diary, April 24, 1954)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HarrySTruman #Politics #Satisfaction #Wealth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Rainbow #MississippiRiver #Iowa

There are few things worse than close supervision by someone who ...

2025-03-06T07:00:05Z

There are few things worse than close supervision by someone who doesn't understand what you're doing.
-- Paul Graham

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PaulGraham #Incompetence #Supervision

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only ...

2025-03-06T03:00:04Z

The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only because we turn it on. If enough of us turn it off, it is gone. Think of it: It is in your power to plunge Bill Gates into poverty, to send Peter Jennings off to 'Good Morning, Saskatchewan,' to rid the world of Disney-licensed products, to see Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer reduced to talking only to each other. Disconnect now!
-- Michael Kelly (Editor-in-Chief, National Journal)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelKelly #Microsoft

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. -- ...

2025-03-05T23:00:04Z

Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.
-- Prince

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Prince #Life #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

Be it religion, love under all its forms, literature, or art, ...

2025-03-05T19:00:04Z

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself. ...

2025-03-05T15:00:04Z

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
-- Eric Gill

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EricGill #Beauty #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by ...

2025-03-05T07:00:04Z

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Force #Peace #Violence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom. -- Ted ...

2025-03-04T11:00:06Z

I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TedNelson #Computers #Freedom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold ...

2025-03-04T07:00:04Z

Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ReinholdNiebuhr #Anxiety #Certainty #Doubt #Orthodoxy #Religion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

Conspiracy theories are cheat codes for ignorant people. ...

2025-03-04T03:00:04Z

Conspiracy theories are cheat codes for ignorant people. Acquiring expertise in a given field is hard, it takes effort and dedication. It's a lot easier to write it off as bullshit than it is to put your nose in a book or spend hours in a lab.
-- Rafin (@RedRafin)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Rafin #ConspiracyTheories #Ignorance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida