Wisdom

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

It is better to hope than despair.

Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Maxim 12: A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... You’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Pilate's skeptical sneer 'What is truth?' was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.