“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 75
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“Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you.”
“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”
“Psychiatrists are not concerned with mental illnesses and their treatments.”
“Drugs are inert chemicals that have no effect on human beings who choose not to use them.”
“Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”
“Every age is a Judas, and betrays its Messiahs into the hands of the multitude.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
“Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.”
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.”
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.”
“But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
“Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.”
“'Tis degrading to undertake difficult trifles; and foolish is the labour spent on puerilities.”
“The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.”