Week 2016-44

"Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory." (Henry David Thoreau)

"Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people." (Michel de Montaigne)

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." (William Blake)

"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven't learned how to read the wisdom of the body." (Dan Millman)

"The price of wisdom is eternal thought." (Frank Birch)

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next." (John Stuart Mill)

"There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather." (Martin Luther)

"Action should culminate in wisdom." (Bhagavad Gita)

"Loong, preserve yourself by following the natural bend of things and don’t interfere. Remember to never assert yourself against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but control it by swinging with it." (Yip Man [according to Bruce Lee])

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." (Francis Bacon)

Week 2016-43

"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next." (Herbert Hoover)

"The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us." (Eric Hoffer)

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." (Francis Bacon)

"Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things."(Heraclitus)

"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude." (Bruce Lee)

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control." (Ogden Nash)

"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are." (Richard Henry Stoddard)

"I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket." (Bruce Lee)

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” (Henry Boye)

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." (Ronald E. Osborn)

"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things." (Denis Diderot)

Week 2016-42

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." (Dolly Parton)

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." (Bruce Lee)

"Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” (Epicurus)

"If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.” (Ashleigh Brilliant)

"There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want." (Rhonda Byrne, "The Secret")

"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut." (Maxwell Maltz)

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” (Alfred Adler)

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.” (William Temple)

"Don’t make a permanent decision based on how you’re temporarily feeling." (Rachel Parrott)

"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own." (Anne Wilson Schaef)

Week 2016-41

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." (Pema Chodron)

"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while." (Eckhart Tolle)

"True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you." (Brad Warner)

"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion." (Herbert Spencer)

"Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. Before you hurt someone, feel. Before you leave, commit to staying." (José Sánchez)

"Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change." (José Sánchez)

"The real meditation is how you live your life." (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." (C S Lewis)

"It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed." (Thomas Moore)

"Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." (Scott Adams)

Week 2016-40

"Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose." (Neil Postman)

"You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed." ( Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." (William Blake)

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." (Maxwell Maltz)

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”)

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)

"[...] without conscious effort, the brain always tries to close the distance between
observed phenomena and knowledge or wisdom that can help us survive." (Alberto Cairo)

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." (Anatole France)

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." (Frank Herbert)