"The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards."
Dalai Lama XIV
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
Khalil Gibran
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
Barack Obama
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
Terry Pratchett
"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
Arthur C. Clarke
"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."
Dr. Seuss
"Every fiction has its base in fact."
Gayle Forman
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."
Sun Tzu
"Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities."
Debasish Mridha
"[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."
Edward O. Wilson
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things."
Robert A. Heinlein
"There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness."
Rebecca MacKinnon
"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."
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