#wisdom

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me. ↗

— Charles Yu

#wisdom #life

لو كان العقل على قدر كلام الرجل، لكان الثرثار أكبر الناس عقلاً، ولو كان العلم على قدر حفظ المسائل لكان التلميذ أوسع من أستاذه علماً، ولو كان الجاه على قدر الفضائل لما كان للأشرار نفوذ، ولو كان المال على قدر العقل لكان أغنى الناس الحكماء، وأفقر الناس السفهاء، ولو كان الخلود على قدر نفع الناس لما خلد السفاحون والطغاة وأكثر الملوك والزعماء. ↗

— مصطفى السباعي

#learning-the-truth #life #life-lessons #philosophy #wisdom

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#war #wisdom #military

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#wisdom #enlightenment

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#education #humor #innate-wisdom #education

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoevsky #hipsters #ignorance #politics #wisdom

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#apply #comes #emotional #existence #experience

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#i #i can #ignorance #only #teach

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#calls #chasing #early #growing #growing up

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#creation #exhausted #fail #father #final