"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense." ― Julian Casablancas Topic(s): Wisdom More From Julian Casablancas "If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don’t think the second option is some big sellout." "Desire is individual. Happiness is common." "Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power." More In Wisdom "Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes."― Richard Cecil "It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein."― Adam Schiff "We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."― Lawrence Ferlinghetti