“Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from Voice of the Gods
“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from Voice of the Gods
“Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from Voice of the Gods
“Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from Voice of the Gods
“Injustice always captures the attention of the young,’ she said. ‘But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can’t fix until we no longer see injustice at all.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from Voice of the Gods
Trudi Canavan
Born place: in Kew, Melbourne, Australia
Born date October 23, 1969
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“I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, quote from Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
“And if I’ve learned one thing over the years, it’s that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.”
― David Weber, quote from The Honor of the Queen
“If he were more commanding, he would not be a person people would leave.”
― Lauren Groff, quote from Arcadia
“(...) era tão diversa de si mesma, ora isto, ora aquilo, que os dias iam passando sem acordo fixo, nem desengano perpétuo.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Quincas Borba
“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned the Dhamma, they do not examine the meaning of those teachings with wisdom. Not examining the meaning of those teachings with wisdom, they do not gain a reflective acceptance of them. Instead they learn the Dhamma only for the sake of criticising others and for winning in debates, and they do not experience the good for the sake of which they learned the Dhamma.”
― quote from The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
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