“Knowledge is a store of factual information. If you have enough knowledge you can make correct decisions. Instinct is a store of personal experiences. Instincts can help you make good decisions when you don’t have the knowledge you need. The accumulation of experience takes time and risk. Wisdom is the ability to collect whatever useful knowledge you can before making a decision and sometimes taking risks to expose yourself to experiences that can teach you more.” – Michael Masterson
“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” – Henry Adams
“I consider myself to be an expert of sorts on retirement. Not because I’ve studied the subject, but because I’ve retired three times.” – Michael Masterson
John D. Rockefeller on Perseverance
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.” – Stephen Colbert
“Conservatives think leftists have no brains. Leftists think conservatives have no heart. I agree with both of them.” – Michael Masterson
“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant
“The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.” – Herodotus
“Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.” – Mao Zedong
“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” – Anton Chekov