“ It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ”
“ The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ”
“ Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). ”
“ When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. ”
“ The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ”
“ Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly. ”
“ 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. ”
“ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ”
“ If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is. ”
“ There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope. ”
“ The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ”
“ There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ”
“ 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. ”
“ 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. ”
“ You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you
do
. ”
“ Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. ”
Martin Luther King Jr. , A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
“ Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ”
“ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ”
“ Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power. ”
“ Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness. ”
“ We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ”
“ You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection ”
“ I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.... ”
“ The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. ”
Thomas Paine , A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
“ We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ”
“ There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. ”
“ I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. ”
