Wisdom

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Holmes,” I cried, “this is impossible.” “Admirable!” he said. “A most illuminating remark. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. Yet you saw for yourself. Can you suggest any fallacy?

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.

I know more than I know and must learn it from myself.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

If you would be a reader read if a writer write.

I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.Nida.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

Your worth cannot be determined by the value others place on you it can only be determined by what you know to be true about yourself.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

There are two kinds of persons which cannot be trusted in this world : the ones who do not greet you with a firm handshake and the ones who do not eat prawn heads.