#wisdom

"Evil [10w] Believing you're evil sets into motion the wheels of self-destruction."

"I'm not trying to tell you,"he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative."

"Unfriend Politeley Means"

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead."

"Oxford, England Haiku City shrouded in fogand within the blinding mist we found each other."

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."

"It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television."

"An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions."

"Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless."

"A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth."

"Original Thoughts [10w] Original thoughts are not diminished by days, distance or disregard."

"A Moment Before Impact [10w] The deer's eyes were moonstones, reflecting back my car's headlights."

"Curse of the Ageing Woman {Couplet} I'm a wallflower, bluestocking, left on the Shelf, When you're beyond one's sell-by date, you've left by yourself,"

"What is God? [17] [10w] God has a fondness for cosmology and carbon-based life forms."

"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."

"Out-of-the-Box [10w] I march to my own drummerin a drum circle."

"There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene."

"The Tigger Journals [10w] "Honestly, I'd rather be alone than with that unbearable Winnie-the-Pooh."

"Atheism [10w] Atheism is the tragic triumph of cold contemptuousness over gratitude."