WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 23, 2025

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Often an opinion, a custom, seems absurd when we are young, and advancing in life, we find the reason. Mustn’t we conclude that certain habits aren’t so ridiculous? One is lead to think sometimes that they were established by people who had read the entire book of life, and that they are judged by people who, despite their esprit, have only read a few pages.
 
[Souvent une opinion, une coutume commence à paraître absurde dans la première jeunesse, et en avançant dans la vie, on en trouve la raison; elle paraît moins absurde. En faudrait-il conclure que de certaines coutumes sont moins ridicules? On serait porté à penser quelquefois qu’elles ont été établies par des gens qui avaient lu le livre entier de la vie, et qu’elles sont jugées par des gens qui, malgré leur esprit, n’en ont lu que quelques pages.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 21 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/770…

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Wolfgang F. RotheJun 13, 2025
Der Whisky-Wächter im Lagerhaus von Glen Garioch. The whisky guard in the Glen Garioch warehouse. #Whisky #GlenGarioch #Schottland #Scotland #Destillerie #Distillery #Lagerhaus #Warehouse #Reifung #Maturing
✒️Miguelbrasil Dec 11, 2024

🎗️"Well-being will start to think and how to value yourself more with a person and above all to preserve yourself."

↪️#wellbeing, #mind, #yourself, #wisdom,#knowledge,#meditation,#psychological,#mentality,#behavior,#mustknow,#lifeexperience,#maturity,#maturing

Viktor Glukozavr KurochkinNov 1, 2024

Growing up is a lot about breaking free from the rules and social expectations that was enforced on you by your parents and environment to keep to safe. Mostly to keep you safe. And finding in all this mess yourself. And the later you start the harder it is.

#maturing #phychology #thoughts

WIST Quotations moves again!Mar 13, 2024

A quotation from James, P.D.:

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Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/james-pd/67779/

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Time To Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography, "Diary 1997" (1999) - James, P.D. | WIST Quotations

Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

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Jane Rosenberg LaForgeOct 1, 2023
Is the field of #fact-checking #maturing,” or is it slipping into irrelevance? A look at the websites, their dip in numbers, and the effectiveness of their efforts. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/business/media/fact-checkers-misinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Fact Checkers Take Stock of Their Efforts: ‘It’s Not Getting Better’

The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off.

The New York Times
Your CounselorMay 25, 2023
Hey #Mastodon
Now more than ever, I find myself comfortable in my own skin. ❤️ I'm seeing through life's riddles with less angst and more understanding. Is this what #Aging feels like? Or is it the elegance of #Maturing? I'm not sure, but I like to believe that aging is a given, maturing is a choice. And it can be beautiful. #FeelingGood #EmbraceYourself #ThursdayThoughts
Henri Goossen WhiskyteacherApr 14, 2023

Interesting post on LinkedIn from Victor James Brierley, Whisky Filth: Scotch Whisky Bonded Warehouses, that nobody knows anything about.
The picture shows unfeasibly large Maturation Sheds, in the Forth Valley. If you go to the top of the nearby hill, Dumyat, near Stirling, you can clearly see lots and lots more of them. All over Alloa and most of Menstrie. Greenkerse, Cambus, Blackgrange.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/victor-james-brierley-5ab61b262_people-warehouses-scotchwhisky-activity-7051580037778567168-LIsD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

#whisky #whiskey #maturing #warehouse #Schotland #scotch #Schotland #highlands

Victor-James- Brierley on LinkedIn: #people #warehouses #scotchwhisky #whiskyfilth #maturation #casks…

Yesterday, I spoke about vast, Scotch Whisky Distilleries, that nobody knows anything about. Today, it's vast, Scotch Whisky Bonded Warehouses, that nobody…

SerendipityMar 18, 2023
Actually excited to see what my hair will look like since deciding to leave hair coloring behind. Early indications suggest salt and pepper which may help to avoid stares. #Maturing
Disappointed IdealistJan 10, 2023

It took 36 years but I finally prefer myself with my natural curly hair over it being straighten.

Life is 20x more peaceful when you accept yourself.

I'd hated my hair having so volume forever, I always felt like it took up too much space.

But I said screwed it and chopped it off and I'm in love with all the volume!

#curly #curlyhair #selflove #selfacceptness #maturing #growing #hair #healing