#wisdo

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#name-of-the-wind #patrick-rothfuss #wisdom #anger

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#business

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#intelligence

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#days #fittest #knowledge #multitude #teach

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now... ↗

— Evanescence

#life #wisdom #beauty

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #consists #wisdom

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. ↗

— William Cowper

#honey #lead #truth #weed #whom

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#memory #repeat #rote #volumes #wisdom