"Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness."
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"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born."
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."
"Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!"
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."
"Books fall open, you fall in."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."
"I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good."
"I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself."
"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."
"The more you know, the less you need."
"To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom."
"Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead."
"Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity."
"Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment."
"Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead."