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«Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.» — Aristotle

«In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.» — Mark Twain

«The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.» — Socrates

«By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.» — Confucius

«May you live every day of your life.» — Jonathan Swift

«Turn your wounds into wisdom.» — Oprah Winfrey

«The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.» — Abigail Van Buren

«Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.» — Michael Levine

«Never, never, never give in!» — Winston S. Churchill

«Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.» — Gibran Khalil Gibran

«Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy» — Ludwig van Beethoven

«Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.» — A.A. Milne

«The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.» — Confucius

«I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.» — Khalil Gibran

«The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.» — William Blake

«How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!» — Homer

«when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.» — e.e. cummings

«90 Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. (translated by Brooks Haxton)» — Heraclitus

«Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. [published in 1979]» — Milan Kundera

«God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.» — Merritt Y. Hughes

«107 To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature. (translated by Brooks Haxton)» — Heraclitus

«19 Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things. (translated by Brooks Haxton)» — Heraclitus

«7 Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse. (translated by Brooks Haxton)» — Heraclitus

«100 People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls. (translated by Brooks Haxton)» — Heraclitus

«O be wise, what can I say more?» — Jacob

«Angry people are not always wise.» — Jane Austen

«Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens» — Jimi Hendrix

«Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.» — Thomas Jefferson

«The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.» — George Orwell

«The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.» — William James

«No man is poor who has a Godly mother.» — Abraham Lincoln

«Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.» — John Russell

«There are no ordinary moments.» — Dan Millman

«Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.» — Eric Idle

«The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?» — Confucius

«The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.» — Dan Millman

«If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.» — Tallulah Bankhead

«Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.» — Euripides

«I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.» — Anthony Robbins

«It takes a great man to be a good listener.» — Calvin Coolidge

«Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.» — Michel de Montaigne

«You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.» — Graham Greene

«It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.» — Thomas McGuane

«I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.» — John Berryman

«Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.» — John Gierach

«Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.» — Eleanor Roosevelt

«He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.» — Confucius

«Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.» — Scott Adams

«Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.» — Brian Tracy

«I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.» — Brian Tracy

«Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.» — Basho

«Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.» — Brian Tracy

«The path to success is to take massive, determined action.» — Anthony Robbins

«The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.» — Brian Tracy

«The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.» — Brian Tracy

«We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.» — Madeleine L'Engle

«Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.» — Brian Tracy

«Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.» —Brian Tracy

«Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?» — Brian Tracy

«Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.» — Brian Tracy

«The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.» — Brian Tracy

«Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!» — Brian Tracy

«The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.» — Brian Tracy

«If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.» — Brian Tracy

«The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.» — Brian Tracy

«The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.» — Brian Tracy

«Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.» — Brian Tracy

«Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.» — Brian Tracy

«Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.» — Brian Tracy

«Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.» — Brian Tracy

«A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.» — Brian Tracy

«Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.» — Walter Wangerin Jr.

«Success equals goals; all else is commentary.» — Brian Tracy

«Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.» — Brian Tracy

«Never laugh at live dragons» — J.R.R. Tolkien

«I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.» — Charles M. Schulz

«Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally» — Abraham Lincoln

«Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness.» — Hermann Hesse

«Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.» — Zsa Zsa Gabor

«Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.» — Clive Barker

«There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will--- V.ii.10» — William Shakespeare

«The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.» — C.S. Lewis

«When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.» — Flannery O'Connor

«Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.» — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

«The simple things are also the most extraordinary things,and only the wise can see them.» — Paulo Coelho

«Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.» — Confucius


«So wise so young, they say, do never live long.» — William Shakespeare

«People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.» — Lynn Marie Sager

«Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.» — Hermann Hesse

«Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.» — Gertrude Stein

«I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.» — Abraham Lincoln

«Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.» — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

«Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.» — Kabir

«It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.» — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

«He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.» — Alexander Hamilton

«It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.» — Albert Einstein

«It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.» — Leo Tolstoy

«A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.» — Siddhārtha Gautama

«Time flows away like the water in the river.» — Confucius

«The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.» — Rabindranath Tagore

«A path is made by walking on it.» — Chuang Tzu

«Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.» — George Washington

«Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.» — Orison Swett Marden

«When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.» — René Descartes

«True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.» — Elizabeth Gilbert

«We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.» — Oscar Wilde

«We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.» — Leo Tolstoy

«learn from the past live in the present plan for the future» — Audrey Farrell

«You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.» — Ann Herendeen

«A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men.» — John August

«It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.» — William Arthur Ward

«People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.» — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

«... wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.» — Gabriel García Márquez

«Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.» — Nisargadatta Maharaj

«People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.» — Michel Foucault

«Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.» — William Jordan

«The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.» — Ralph Waldo Emerson

«There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.» — Suzanne Crowley

«I am not the river I am the net. -attributed to Tolstoy in Chapterhouse Dune» — Frank Herbert

«Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.» — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

«...it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom» — Paul Auster

«Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.» — Anne Bradstreet

«Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.» — John Kenneth Galbraith

«It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.» — Aristotle

«Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.» — Langston Hughes

«We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.» — Martin Luther King Jr.

«I do not know everything; still many things I understand.» — Madeleine L'Engle

«I'm not young enough to know everything.» — J.M. Barrie

«As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not moved by praise or blame.» — Siddhārtha Gautama

«If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.» — Benjamin Franklin

«We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder» — St. Gregory the Great

«Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.» — Mortimer J. Adler

«Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends weith a tear» — Evelyn O Shih

«I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams» — Hugh Walpole

«You cannot teach a man anything: you can only find it within yourself.» — Galileo Galilei

«Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.» — Socrates

«A man without words is a man without thought.» — John Steinbeck

«Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.» — Carl Gustav Jung

«Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.» — Eckhart Tolle

«Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.» — Confucius

«If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.» — Paul F. Davis

«We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.» — Joseph Campbell

«We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.» — H.L. Mencken

«It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.» — William Saroyan

«How many people you bless is how you measure success» — Rick Ross

«Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.» — Laozi

«Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.» — Joan Borysenko

«What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.» — Soygal Rinpoche

«If you have a message that would be too difficult for adults to understand, write it for children.» — alexandra

«They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?» — Jonathan Cainer

«A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth and sun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you, like the sunset.» — Beth Johnson

«Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.» — Samuel Johnson

«Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.» — Groucho Marx

«Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.» — Isaac Asimov

«Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.» — Mahatma Gandhi

«Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.» — Zora Neale Hurston

«Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.» — Rachel Naomi Remen

«If you rest, you rust.» — Helen Hayes

«In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.» — Philip Dormer Stanhope

«Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.» — Scott Westerfeld

«Conceit spoils the finest genius.» — Louisa May Alcott

«Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.» — Henry James

«For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.» — Plato

«The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.» — Benjamin Franklin

«Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.» — Austin Dacey

«... but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends...» — Emily Brontë

«You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.» — Ann Rinaldi

«They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.» — Stephen R. Covey

«The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.» — Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

«Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.» — David Starr Jordan

«Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.» — Oscar Wilde

«Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.» — Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

«Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.» — Cornelia Funke

«Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.» — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

«Remember God in prosperity, and He will remember you in adversity» — Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

«Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.» — Xiaolu Guo

«Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?» — Eckhart Tolle

«The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.» — Charles Kingsley

«What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?» — Ibn 'Ata' Allah Al-Iskandari

«They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.» — Bob Dylan

«Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.» — Inga Muscio

«Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.» — Ludwig Börne

«When Ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination» — Neil deGrasse Tyson

«We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.» — Eden Phillpotts

«Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.» — Kurt Vonnegut

«The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.» — Hasan Al-Basri

«We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged» — Heinrich Heine

«No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.» — Ami McKay

«They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.» — Ken Kesey

«If you're not careful you might end up where you're going!» — Performance Appraisal and Human Development: A Practical Guide t

«There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.» — George Jones

«...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it --nor can they.» — Gertrude Bell

«Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice.» — Veda Catherine Storey

«Even strienght must bow to wisdom sometimes.» — Rick Riordan

«May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...» — Robert Fanney

«Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.» — Hunter S. Thompson

«He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.» — Stephen King

«The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil» — Sandra Cisneros

«It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.» — Oscar Wilde

«There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.» — William Shakespeare

«If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car» — Judy Gold

«But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?» — Ken Kesey

«Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.» — Peggy Vincent

«He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.» — Gibran Khalil Gibran

«It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.» — Kevin Brooks

«To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.» — Marilyn Vos Savant

«It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.» — Winston Churchill

«A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.» — Ralph Alfred Habas

«Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.» — William Knowlton Zinsser

«It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.» — J.R.R. Tolkien

«If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.» — Jodi Picoult

«Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.» — Aristotle

«A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.» — Marshall McLuhan

«In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.» — Paulo Coelho

«When you love you give meaning to this world.» — Sorin Cerin

«We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.» — Sorin Cerin

«What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.» — William Blake

«No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.» — Sorin Cerin

«Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.» — Sorin Cerin

«To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.» — Sorin Cerin

«The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.» — Sorin Cerin

«Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?» — Sorin Cerin

«Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.» — Sorin Cerin

«Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities.» — Sorin Cerin

«The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.» — Sorin Cerin

«Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous» — Laura Fitzgerald

«If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny.» — Thomas Jefferson

«It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.» — Henri Frederic Amiel

«The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.» — Isaiah Berlin

«I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.» — Hermann Hesse

«Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!» — K.M. Johnson

«Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.» — Phaedrus

«In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.» — Oliver W. Sacks

«Don't kill me because I'm gay, pray for me for it is God who created me.» — Criss Tareyton

«We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.» — Sorin Cerin

«To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.» — Sorin Cerin
«The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.» — Sorin Cerin

«Magic is always impossible, said the magician. It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic» — Kate DiCamillo

«[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...» — André Maurois

«…call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.» — Bhagavad Gita

«Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.» — Noah Benshea

«Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.» — Anna Godbersen

«The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.» — Joyce Carol Oates

«Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.» — Edna St. Vincent Millay

«Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?» — Andrew Clements

«No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth» — Aesop

«A man's life is dyed the color of his imagination.» — Marcus Aurelius

«No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.» — Ernest Hemingway

«Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel." As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.» — Lorraine Heath

«Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children» — The RZA

«To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.» — Sorin Cerin

«In every bush lies a nest.» — Kensington Roth

«Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.» — Benjamin Franklin

«A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.» — Thomas Fuller

«We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.» — Sorin Cerin

«We are unable to envision death without the life within us which is full aware of it.» — Sorin Cerin

«If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.» — Sorin Cerin

«Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.» — Sorin Cerin

«There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.» — Patrick Rothfuss

«A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.» — Lao Tzu

«It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.» — Madeleine L'Engle

«I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.» — Hippolyte A. Taine

«People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.» — Craig Ferguson

«The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.» — Carolyn Mackler

«Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.» — L. Ron Hubbard

«Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match» — Joshua Caleb

«But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.» — Robert A. Heinlein

«The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.» — Paulo Coelho

«You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.» — Colette

«Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.» — Libba Bray

«The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.» — Thomas Stephen Szasz

«Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.» — Alfred Lord Tennyson

«Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.» — Truman Capote

«In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.» — Ansel Adams

«Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.» — Lisa Lutz

«Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.» — Joe Abercrombie

«Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.» — Sarah Addison Allen

«The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.» — Dalai Lama XIV

«You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-restpect out of the equation.» — Sarah Addison Allen

«Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...» — Richard Wagner

«Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.» — Napoleon Bonaparte

«Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.» — Robert A. Heinlein

«If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.» — Haruo Shirane

«If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.» — Colin Bateman

«Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.» — Francis Quarles

«The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.» — Archilochus

«An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.» — Benjamin Franklin

«There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.» — Charles Dickens

«Without the reader, there is no writer.» — Wil Zeus

«After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.» — Mario Benedetti

«If you expect nothing, you'll never be disappointed.» — ?

«I am in the world to change the world» — Käthe Kollwitz

«Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.» — Kay Redfield Jamison

«Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.» — Auguste Rodin

«Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.» — William Shakespeare

«I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.» — John Milton

«Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.» — Mikhail Naimy


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