Wisdom

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

You will be amazed to see how just one moment of truth has the potential to simplify your struggles!

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Light chases away darkness.

Our reaction does not cancel the meaning of their existence because every creation serves a definite purpose.

Muslim religious leaders — from Al-Azhar in Cairo to local imams throughout the world - need to say exactly what Pope Francis said to the Catholic members of the Mafia: ‘Any Muslim who commits an act of terror — that is, deliberately murders civilians of any nationality or religion — goes to hell.

A word drops into the mistlike a child's ball into high grasswhere it remains seductivelyflashing and glinting untilthe gold bursts are revealed to besimply field buttercups.Word/mist, word/mist: thus it was with me.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, 'When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Some people aren’t really light-teethed.

The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-.

A belief is an uneducated guess.