Wisdom Quotes
The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.
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"We become lost only when we stop asking where we are."Ahmed, Sara
"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with."Haraway, Donna
"Survival is an inadequate response to the world's troubles."Haraway, Donna
"We must develop response-ability, not just responsibility."Haraway, Donna
"We must learn to live in the ruins of progress."Haraway, Donna
"We must think-with rather than think-about."Haraway, Donna
"The question is not what we know, but what we can do together."Haraway, Donna
"We must learn to work across our differences and discomforts."Haraway, Donna
"We must think of ourselves as response-able beings."Haraway, Donna
"The world is not to be mastered but lived in relationship with."Haraway, Donna
"We must think beyond the binaries that constrain our understanding of identity."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Difference is not deficiency; it is the condition of existence."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are always already implicated in the systems we seek to critique."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We must think about what we do before we think about what we are."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are what we do, not what we say we are."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We must learn to inhabit paradox."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Difference cannot be erased; it can only be negotiated."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We are always already implicated in the systems we inhabit."Grosz, Elizabeth
"We must embrace the uncertainty of becoming."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Desire is not something to be ashamed of; it is something to be studied."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Disidentification teaches us how to live within, against, and beyond ideology."Muñoz, José Esteban
"To feel is to know; to know is to feel."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Sadness is a gift because it makes us attentive."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The margins have their own wisdom."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Affirmative ethics says yes to life in all its complexity."Braidotti, Rosi
"Difference is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be embraced."Braidotti, Rosi
"The body is not separate from thought but intrinsic to it."Braidotti, Rosi
"Living well means embracing our interdependence with others."Braidotti, Rosi
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought"Law, John
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"Law, John