#knowledge

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"You're My Favorite' If you want all your children to know they're your favorite,give them all the same nameand whisper this confession in all their earswith the promise not to telltheir brothers and sisters."

"Il Principe 2015: Lesson 1 - The Balls If humility is what's all important to your adversary,humble yourself before him,and you've got him by the balls."

"Library [10w] Hopefully, the library in the afterlife doesn't contain contemporary poetry."

"How to Treat Your Lover {Couplet} If you want to learn how your lover best to treat,Pretend each time is the last time you'll ever meet."

"Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth."

"Hook 'em I know how to leave them satisfied and hungry for more ~with a carefully administered shot of insulin."

"I only know everything if you ask the right questions."

"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."

"Poets and their Thin Skins Every poet is thin-skinned when it comes to criticism ~without ithow could he ever possess the astute sensitivity about lifeto even write poetry?"

"Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge."

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."

"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."

"Taste [10w] + [10w] "If you have sophisticated taste, you like what I like.If you're a Neanderthal, you will love what I hate."

"Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand."

"Hanzō Katana Poetry A poem should be forged and folded to perfection like a Hanzō katanaand as gentle as the mist it cuts through."

"Prickly Pears [10w] Men are often like cactus fruits ~thorny outside,mushy inside."

"Embalming [10w] Injecting baking soda whitens, freshens, and softens the dearly departed."

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."