wisdom

"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."

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them"

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."

"Time flows away like the water in the river."

"The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)"

"Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character."

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

"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."

"There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road."

"Who said nights were for sleep?"

"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."

"We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without."

"After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won’t need it."

"It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."

"errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."

"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."

"Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own."

"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."