"Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better."
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"....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning."
"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."
"Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know."
"A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see"
"Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same."
"The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
"Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!"
"You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented."
"In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense."
"Trying to hide my feelings to avoid getting hurt just ends up hurting not only myself—but also the person I am hiding my feelings from."
"I’ll wear a maze on a necklace, dangling over my chest, because if you want to get at my heart, you have to be ready to lose yourself."
"A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies"
"In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man."When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body."
"Wind is renewable. Turbines are not."
"One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about."
"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
"Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world."
"Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did."