Wisdom

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus.

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees.

Where have they gone?' 'Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Not only does evil depend upon good, but in this case, darkness depends upon light.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

If what you need, in order to feel good about yourself later on, is to show him some mercy - then show him mercy. If you need to tell him the truth, do that. But try to look at in terms of what you're going to be able to live with ten, twenty years down the line.

In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is faced with disconcerting ontological and perceptual problems.Indeed, the disorienting effect of the supernatural encounter in fiction seems to reflect some deeper disorientations in the culture at large.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

People fear what they do not understand.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool;Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.

Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition.