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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 76e
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- Intelligence
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Conversation of 1934
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Journal entry (1 November 1914)
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse1881–1975The Man Upstairs (1914)
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And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.
William Wordsworth1770–1850The Oak and the Broom: A Pastoral (Lyrical Ballads, 1800), the Broom’s reply to the Oak
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Down by the Salley Gardens (1889)In context
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- Youth
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.
Frank Zappa1940–1993In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).
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