wisdom

"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."

"Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion."

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless."

"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

"Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God."

"ليس كل ما يخطر للمرء يقوله ، لا سيما إذا كان صحيحا"

"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."

"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days,"imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days"and that human nature changes with the times."

"Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes."

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

"With any new business deal, don’t think about how much you can afford to get—think about how much you can afford to give. A spirit of giving will allow you to get."

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."

"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."