Wisdom

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.

Silence is not a reply. However, it shows a way of avoiding further discussion and critical questions and the escape from the reality or idiocy, since it is a personal diplomacy.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is generally written by folks who grew up on horror; books, movies, etc. You can’t simply decide to write—in any genre—if you don’t first have an understanding of the topic and a strong mental backlog of reference.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Why is the Chosen One always a he?

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thoughts as thoughts rather than getting caught up in them in reality.

If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge.' -Faydra D. Fields.

Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Self-education is self-empowerment.

A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear the path for release.

All will come out in the washing.