Wisdom

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who is hurting. Only judge when time passes and the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Apologize!That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself.

...Maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned.

Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made things work, that gave the world its purpose. It was just that they were best avoided close up.