Profited Handsomely Quotes & Sayings

The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. Ludwig Wittgenstein had the idea that philosophy should be what he called "true enough." I think that's a great idea. True enough is as true as can be gotten. The imagination is chaos. New forms are fetched out of it. The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas. — Rupert Sheldrake

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. — James Henry Breasted

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term, — Kwame Kilpatrick

You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month. — Amy Schumer

A curse, once uttered, cannot be recalled fully. — Pradeep Sharma

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. — Winston Churchill

play has become too domesticated and regimented while playgrounds themselves have become more and more barren. May today are devoid of vegetation with which to form nests, shelters, wands, dolls, or other playthings...These concerns are best explored in a heterogeneous habitat, where several secret niches are harbored, the kinds that can no longer be found on prefabricated metal and plastic jungle gym. — Gary Paul Nabhan

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — John Napier