Week 2016-45

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." (Confucius)

"It is the rhythmic form in which the mind tends to perceive monotonously repeated stimulation. That's why we pray and why we should also pray audibly, because the sound stimulates the ability to awaken our senses, in order to arouse the forces which will strengthen the psychic abilities within." (Edgar Cayce)

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." (Helen Adams Keller)

“The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness." (Jean Cocteau)

"There are two types of ignorance, the pure, natural ignorance into which all people are born, and the ignorance of the so-called wise. You will see that many among those who call themselves scholars do not know real life, and they despise simple people and simple things." (Blaise Pascal)

"Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly." (Michel de Montaigne)

"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably." (Bertolt Brecht)

"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge." ( Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." (Michel de Montaigne)

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)