wisdom

"Never laugh at live dragons."

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

"Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest."

"Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers."

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."

"People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence."

"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like."

"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger."

"Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too."

"In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense."

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know."

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

"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."

"A slinky is a toy made for stairs, but that’s entirely too tiresome. What about a toy for escalators that doesn’t move and does nothing and that’s the whole point? I think Americans would relate to and embrace that mentality."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?"

"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego."

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"