“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
“Words can mean nothing, or be daggers in someone's heart. Choose them wisely.”
― Christian Coma (CC)
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem
"Samuel Gompers was the founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor. He established in America the tradition of practical bargaining between labor and management which led to an era of growth and prosperity for labor unions. Now, seventy years after Gomper's death, the unions have dwindled, while his dreams-more books and fewer guns, more leisure and less greed, more schoolhouses and fewer jails-have been tacitly abandoned. In a society without social justice and with a free-market ideology, guns, greed, and jails are bound to win."
Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt
"People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."
T. S. Eliot
"And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire."
--Matthew 18:9 (KJV)
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Jesus Christ
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
John Benfield
