Wisdom

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil-far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word 'human' disappears from the race.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

Never lose your sense of common sense.

Eyes shows lies.

The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

You can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next, by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help, said Chiron.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist.

Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals.

There was something in the way he posed a question and followed it up with a generous pause, I think, that drew me out. I had never noticed all the pauses that were missing from most people's conversations.

Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.