In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it. Timothy J. Keller
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Michel De Montaigne
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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Jane Austen
There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
Our mind is like a MIRROR it reflects to the outside World what we think.
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AuliqIce
This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call it the trump card of the stupid, since (and this is surely one of the tragedies of human existence) it is the one form of stupidity...
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David Graeber
More Quotes By Timothy J. Keller
That proves you are unusual, " returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.
