"wisdom"タグの名言

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Negeri ini sungguh-sungguh membutuhkan pemberani-pemberani yang gila, asal cerdas. Bukan yang tahu adat, yang berkepribadian pribumi, yang suka harmoni, yang saleh alim, yang nurut model kuli dan babu.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.