#wisdom

"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."

"What happens when you trip China's Premier Li Keqiang on a banana peel? Your wind up with an even more slippery slope."

"Good vs. Great [10w] To be good twice is a true mark of greatness."

"Fugly Fishmates For every woman that looks like a hatchet-faced haddockthere's an equally ugly flounder-faced man with even fewer prospects."

"Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn’t exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing."

"You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life."

"Grass in a Sidewalk Crack Grass sprounting miraculously in a sidewalk crack is a metaphor forlousy maintenance."

"Spirituality and Aging Spirituality comes naturally to the old because they're running out of options."

"I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time"

"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up..."

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

"Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character."

"The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)"

"There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table."

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back."

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

"United Negro College Fund: A mind is a terrible thing to waste... ...and so is your paycheck,so don't waste good money on a lost cause."

"You're Totally Fucked' Defined [10w] What's before you is hopeless and behind you is negligible."