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BRAIN POWER Our Genie to Success - by Michele Blood- Why Utilize Data Outsourcing Businesses? - by Submitted on May 21, 2011 from Rita ThomsonAs a small business owner, you have money to increase your profits while your growing business looking to save as many ways as possible wants. Congratulations to the Internet, the process of outsourcing at lower cost with a qualified and experienced staff not only in Canada but can be used ...
Views: 1233 - Why Worry is not the Answer - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2011 from Ade AdenekanWhy worry and for what reason? If it is not for a matter of pride and self deceit, we just cannot run away from the fact that there are so many things in and around our environments over which have no iota of control. In order to make this point clearer, it goes without saying that we have no ...
Views: 1645 - Why You Should Love These Spiritual Laws - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2015 from Scott & Stephen PetulloEveryone has heard about the law of attraction, but there are other spiritual laws about which you should be more excited. Embracing these spiritual laws will help you get the most out of your life by minimizing negative circumstances and generating peace of mind and satisfaction. Our ...
Views: 1156 - Wisdom and Buddhism - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from sylvia smelcerWhen it comes to the connection between Buddhism and wisdom, it would not be accurate to say that the path to wisdom is found exclusively through Buddhism. However, it would be accurate to say that a life spent practicing Buddhism would make you a wiser person. You would definitely achieve such ...
Views: 1580 - Wisdom of Arthur Schopenhauer - by Submitted on Apr 11, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloArthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21 1860) was a German philosopher and is best known for his book The World as Will and Representation. He was one of the first in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy. His work didn’t attract ...
Views: 529 - Wisdom of Banana Yoshimoto - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloBanana Yoshimoto (born July 24th 1964) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto. She began her writing career while working as a waitress in 1987. Her debut work, Kitchen had over 60 printings in Japan alone. Two film adaptations were produced from the book. Her works include ...
Views: 152 - Wisdom of Baruch Spinoza - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloBaruch Spinoza (November 24, 1632–February 21, 1677), born in Amsterdam, was a Portuguese-Jewish philosopher and one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment. He is known as one of the most original and radical philosophers of the seventeenth century. Below we list some words of wisdom ...
Views: 532 - Wisdom of Bernard Williams - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21st, 1929 – June 10th, 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His authored the books Problems of the Self, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity, and Truth and Truthfulness. He was a Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the ...
Views: 283 - Wisdom of Blaise Pascal - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloBlaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662), was a French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and inventor. A child prodigy, he wrote a remarkable dissertation on projective geometry at the age of 16. He later worked on probability theory, developed calculating machines, wrote a key ...
Views: 449 - Wisdom of Charles Babbage - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloCharles Babbage (December 26, 1791 – October 18 1871) was an English philosopher, inventor, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He is known for inventing the first mechanical computer and is considered the “father of the computer.” Below we list some words of wisdom from Charles ...
Views: 349 - Wisdom of Dante Alighieri - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloDante Alighieri (May 1265 – September 14, 1321), was an Italian philosopher, poet, and writer. He was influential in establishing Italy’s literature and is considered one of the world’s greatest literary legends. He is most known for his portrayals of Heaven and Hell. Below we list some ...
Views: 206 - Wisdom of David Hume - by Submitted on May 06, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloDavid Hume (May 7th, 1711 – August 25th 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, economist, historian, essayist, and librarian. He is best known for his system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Below we list some words of wisdom from David Hume. "There is no ...
Views: 386 - Wisdom of Democritus - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloDemocritus ( 460 – 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher from Abdera. He is famous for an atomic theory of the universe. Democritus wrote extensively on many subjects including poetry, military tactics, harmony, and Babylonian theology. His original work didn’t survive, but many second-hand ...
Views: 195 - Wisdom of Denis Diderot - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloDenis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. He was a major figure in the Age of Enlightenment and best known as co-founder and contributor to the Encyclopédie, an encyclopedia of the arts and sciences. Below we list some words of wisdom from Denis ...
Views: 321 - Wisdom of Desiderius Erasmus - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloDesiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (October 28th, 1466 – July 12th 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Dutch and Western ...
Views: 307 - Wisdom of Dolly Parton - by Submitted on May 08, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloDolly Parton (born January 19th, 1946) is a country music singer-songwriter legend. She’s also a business woman and philanthropist. She was first a successful songwriter for other artists, then released her first album in 1967, and has since sold over 100 million records since. She’s had 110 ...
Views: 498 - Wisdom of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2026 from Scott & Stephen PetulloFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24th, 1896 – December 21st, 1940), known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist. He is most known for his novels about the excess of the Jazz Age. When Fitzgerald died, he and the critics who knew his work thought it was ...
Views: 62 - Wisdom of Franz Kafka - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloFranz Kafka (July 3rd, 1883 – June 3rd, 1924) was a Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He ...
Views: 139 - Wisdom of Friedrich Nietzsche - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloFriedrich Nietzsche (October 15th, 1844 – August 25th, 1900) was a German poet, philologist, philosopher, composer, and cultural critic whose work heavily influenced contemporary philosophy. Below we list some words of wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche. "Do you want to have an easy life? Then ...
Views: 466 - Wisdom of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27th, 1770 – November 14th, 1831) was a German philosopher and an important voice of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. He wrote about the philosophical side of many contemporary topics, including metaphysics, art, history, politics, and ...
Views: 239 - Wisdom of George Berkeley - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloGeorge Berkeley (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753) was known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) and was an Anglo-Irish philosopher. His primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism", which says material substances are ideas ...
Views: 353 - Wisdom of Hannah Arendt - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German-born philosopher and historian, and was one of the most prominent political theorists in the last century. She wrote extensively on the topics of totalitarianism, and the nature of power and evil. The Origins of Totalitarianism and ...
Views: 482 - Wisdom of Henry David Thoreau - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHenry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817¬–May 6, 1862) was an American philosopher and writer. He is best known as an advocate of transcendentalism. He also believed in reincarnation. His book Walden is about life in the woods, an experiment on self-sufficiency. His essay, Civil Disobedience, ...
Views: 474 - Wisdom of Heraclitus - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHeraclitus (500 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. He influenced ancient and modern Western philosophy, through Plato, Hegel, Aristotle, Heidegger, and others. The main ideas of his philosophy are the unity of opposites and the concept of change. Below we list some words of wisdom ...
Views: 177 - Wisdom of Hesiod - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHesiod (circa 1200 BC), was an ancient Greek poet whose works are among the earliest surviving examples of Greek literature. He is best known for two major poems: Works and Days, offering practical advice on farming and morality, and Theogony, a cosmological epic detailing the origins of the ...
Views: 172 - Wisdom of Immanuel Kant - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloImmanuel Kant (April 22nd, 1724 – February 12th, 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics made him one of the most influential thinkers in modern Western philosophy. ...
Views: 484 - Wisdom of Italo Calvino - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloItalo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose imaginative and intellectually playful works reshaped modern literature. His masterpieces include Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and ...
Views: 95 - Wisdom of Italo Calvino - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloItalo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose imaginative and intellectually playful works reshaped modern literature. His masterpieces include Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and ...
Views: 88 - Wisdom of Jacques Derrida - by Submitted on May 05, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloJacques Derrida (July 15th,1930 – October 9th, 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher and author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays. He significantly influenced philosophy, sociolinguistics, music, literature, architecture, applied linguistics, political theory, law, psychoanalysis, ...
Views: 181 - Wisdom of John Locke - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloJohn Locke (August 29, 1632–October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, and known as the “father of liberalism.” Liberalism was originally defined as a political and moral philosophy based on the right to private property and personal liberty, basic human rights, and equality ...
Views: 426 - Wisdom of Keanu Reeves - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloKeanu Reeves (September 2nd, 1964) is an actor who was born in Beirut and raised in Toronto. His breakthrough role was in the 1989 science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. In addition to many films since then, Keanu has directed, plays bass guitar in the band Dogstar, and is ...
Views: 529 - Wisdom of Kimitake Hiraoka - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloKimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 January 14th, 1925 – November 25th, 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), was a Japanese author, playwright, actor, poet, model, Shintoist, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his ritual suicide. Below we list some words of ...
Views: 186 - Wisdom of Leonard Bernstein - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2026 from Scott & Stephen PetulloLeonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, and author. One of the most influential figures in 20th-century classical music, he served as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969, composed the score for ...
Views: 17 - Wisdom of Malcolm Forbes - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMalcolm Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was an American businessman and publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He promoted capitalism and free market economics and was known for an extravagant lifestyle, including spending $2.5 million on his ...
Views: 264 - Wisdom of Martial - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMartial (c. 38 – c. 104 AD), known as Marcus Valerius Martialis, was a Roman poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103. In these short, witty poems, he satirizes city life, the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and ...
Views: 146 - Wisdom of Michel de Montaigne - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMichel de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 – September 13 1592), was a French statesman, writer, and philosopher, known for making the essay a popular literary genre. He was one of the most notable philosophers of the French Renaissance and is most known for his cynical statement, “What do I know?” ...
Views: 291 - Wisdom of Morgan Freeman - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMorgan Freeman (June 1, 1937) is an American actor, narrator, and producer. He’s received many awards for his work, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil ...
Views: 481 - Wisdom of Muhammad Ali - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016). He is known as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. After Ali refused to be drafted into the military in 1967, he was found guilty of draft evasion and stripped of his boxing titles. His conviction ...
Views: 129 - Wisdom of Niccolò Machiavelli - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) lived during the Renaissance and was a Florentine diplomat, philosopher, historian, and author. He served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic for many years. He is most known for his political treatise The Prince (Il ...
Views: 358 - Wisdom of Ovid - by Submitted on May 19, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloOvid (circa 43 BC), was a Roman poet whose lyrical verses have transcended time, offering profound insights into love, change, and the human spirit. His works like Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, and Tristia offer timeless truths. Ovid’s ability to capture universal experiences makes his words as ...
Views: 185 - Wisdom of Ovid - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHorace (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), was an ancient Roman poet renowned for his lyric poetry and satires. His works, including blend wit, wisdom, and reflections on human nature, offering timeless insights into living a balanced and virtuous life. A leading poet under Emperor ...
Views: 188 - Wisdom of Pythagoras - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloPythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean Brotherhood, a religious and philosophical community that explored mathematics, science, and the nature of the universe. He was born on the island of Samos in Greece, in 570 BC, and is best known for his theorem ...
Views: 620 - Wisdom of René Descartes - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloRené Descartes (March 31, 1596– February 11,1650) was a French scientist, mathematician and philosopher. He pioneered analytic geometry, is often considered the father of modern philosophy, and contributed greatly to the Age of Reason. Below we list some words of wisdom from René ...
Views: 539 - Wisdom of Rumi - by Submitted on May 22, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloRumi (September 30, 1207–December 17, 1273) was an Iranian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic. His wisdom and spiritual writings are widely known throughout the Middle East, and he is one of the best-selling poets in the United States. Below we list some words of wisdom from Rumi. “I ...
Views: 482 - Wisdom of Sai Baba of Shirdi - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSai Baba of Shirdi (1838–October 15, 1918) was an Indian spiritual teacher who is considered to be a saint by Hindus and Muslims. He emphasized the importance of self-actualization, forgiveness, compassion, inner peace, and devotion to God. Below we list some words of wisdom from Sai Baba of ...
Views: 486 - Wisdom of Sir Thomas More - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSir Thomas More (February 7th, 1478 – July 6th, 1535), honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, author, social philosopher, amateur theologian, statesman, and Renaissance humanist. More opposed the Protestant Reformation and Henry VIII's separation ...
Views: 363 - Wisdom of Sir Thomas More - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSir Thomas More (February 7th, 1478 – July 6th, 1535), honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, author, social philosopher, amateur theologian, statesman, and Renaissance humanist. More opposed the Protestant Reformation and Henry VIII's separation ...
Views: 347 - Wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2024 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSoren Kierkegaard (May 5th, 1813 – November 11th, 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, social critic, poet, and religious author who many consider to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical works on organized religion, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of ...
Views: 315 - Wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSoren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer, widely regarded as the father of existentialism. His works, including Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, The Sickness Unto Death, and Works of Love, explore themes of individuality, faith, despair, ...
Views: 112 - Wisdom of Soren Kierkegaard - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSoren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer, widely regarded as the father of existentialism. His works, including Fear and Trembling, Either/Or, The Sickness Unto Death, and Works of Love, explore themes of individuality, faith, despair, ...
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