wisdom

"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."

"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature."

"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief."

"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W."

"If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired."

"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."

"When you give everything and expect nothing in return, only then will you be in a position to gain anything. When you love loving, you give because giving is getting. Giving is a gift unto itself, and when you realize this you understand that you can’t network if you can’t love."

"We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise."

"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public."

"Just when you thought you’d considered all the angles, life goes from a square to a cube. Love should also be 3D."

"To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self."

"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true"

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.""I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go."