wisdom

"When in doubt, choose to live."

"Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth."

"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?"

"The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see."

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit."

"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."

"Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better."

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."

"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."

"Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing."

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

"The past has no power over the present moment."

"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?"

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."

"Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same."