Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.
Self - education is a sacred act.
It's not what you know
Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, Twice is enough.
There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.
The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
Even blind alleys lead somewhere.
Often the best advice is not to seek advice.
You be wise to stop your negative ways, mister.
Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study...
The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
You gotta look backwards to go forwards.
The Law Polarity states that everything has an opposite – it’s the flip side of the coin. You're right, my left; the front, the back. Consider this next time you disagree with someone, because...
The spirit of counsel enables a person to look for something new and to search further and deeper.
Had I crossed the pass supported by a stick, I would have spared myself the fall from the horse.
To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to...
To gain wisdom, try to understand with love.
If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists - - magicians par excellence.
One of the greatest sources of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely...
If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life.
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend - and ev'ry foe.
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
Since we have to make choices in life, why not choose the good ones?
Those who suffer much, have much to say.
Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.
Be open-minded to see those that you can't trust. Be closed-minded and keep ones within your trust.
Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.
For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...