wisdom

"Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp."

"Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it."

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

"I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."

"Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost"

"It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]"

"I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind."

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up..."

"Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation."

"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."

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise."

"Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men."

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."