Jumpin’ Jehosephat—Jupiterian Wisdom and Wisecracks

©11-5-2009 by Donna Cunningham, MSW

 I don’t know about you, but I’m a tad burnt out on the intensity of Pluto and Saturn and am ready to lighten up.  One of the items on my Google start-up page is Quotes of the Day – The Quotations Page.  I entertain myself each morning by sorting their selections according to the planet they most resemble.  In our charts, Jupiter represents:

Wisdom/Education/learning from experience 

Faith/religion/philosophy

Travel/foreign countries

Growth/Expansion/overdoing things

Optimism/Luck/gambling

 Here are some quotes that said JUPITER to me—a collection of jovial wisdom and witticisms by wise folks and wiseacres:

 Wisdom/truth:

 Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions. – Cullen Hightower 

 When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.- George Bernard Shaw

 If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.- Rene Descartes

 The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.  – Flannery O’Connor

 There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. – Alfred North Whitehead

 The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

 Education/learning from experience:

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. – Barry LePatner

 Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.  Pete Seeger

 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.  Will Durant

 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.  B. F. Skinner

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.  Stephen Vizinczey,

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree; then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated.  Al McGuire

Faith/religion/philosophy:

 It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

 First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. – Eric Hoffer

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.  – Dan Barker

 With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg

 The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

 I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays. Henny Youngman  

 Optimism/Luck/gambling:

 The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov

 We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?- Jean Cocteau

 An optimist is the human personification of spring. Susan J. Bissonette

 Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. Robert G. Allen

 To learn more about any of the people quoted—or see more quotes from them, click on the links. You can see more quote collections on this blog at the following links: 

• Quotes about Saturn’s Issues—Wise Counsel from our Elders
• Uranian Ideas—Exceptional Thoughts about an Exceptional Planet
• Neptunian Musings—Mysterious but Strangely Apt Quotations
• Mars—What Great Minds say about Its Functions 

 More Posts about Jupiter on this Blog:

• Hyperactive Jupiter Syndrome—The Down Side of an Upbeat Planet
• The Astrology of Self-Justification
• Jupiter in the 12th—When Does Good Luck Turn Bad?
• Why Saturn has as much to do with Luck as Jupiter
• The Law of Progressive Annoyance—Mars or Jupiter? 
• The Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron Conjunction Hits the US Moon

FREE EBOOKLET FOR SKYWRITER SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Mothers, Daughters, and the Moon, a 50-page excerpt from The Moon in your Life. Read more about it here: NEW: FREE BOOKLET FOR SKYWRITER SUBSCRIBERS!  If you’re already a subscriber and want a copy, forward the most recent email post to me at moonmave@spiritone.com. To sign up for a subscription, go to the top right hand corner of the blog and click on “Subscribe.”  Then send me an email with your subscription confirmation or an email post with a request for the booklet in the subject line.

Art credits:  The laughing jester is a painting at the Art museum of Sweden, Stockholm and is in the public domain.