29 October 2016

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)

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