Wisdom

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

I’ve told you that I’m a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight.

Genetic code is a divine writing.

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

Ask yourself if you’re taking the time to see beyond the surface.

...And spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. In philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.

Pride is causing harm.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.

Bigwig: 'I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah.'Hazel: 'Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.