Wisdom

Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.

Future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

THoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words.

Very often inertia, selfishness, and vanity play the greatest role in our trust in others; inertia when we prefer to trust somebody else, in order not to investigate, be vigilant, or act ourselves; selfishness when the desire to speak about our own affairs tempts us to confide in someone else; vanity when it concers something that we are proud of.

No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!

Think about it for a second:Babies are not born prejudice, they are not racist,they don’t hate, they don’t judge, and are not born believing in christianity, buddhism, sikhism, hinduism, judaism or any other ism.We, as adults, teach them all these things.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.

What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me about that is we’re talking about an art form in which your medium is language. It’s almost a paradox that you’re seeing. I want to give you emotion, that if I just relied on diction, I wouldn’t have language for it.

You know,” said Jehangir, breaking the silence, “it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.

Never underestimate the power of pain. Once it's revealed, you would see the unexpected result coming up.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

In light, there is no darkness; and in darkness, there is no light.

Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!' (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013).