Wisdom

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot teach people anything.  You can only help them discover it within themselves.

- Galileo

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

When spider webs unite, the can tie up a lion.

Our life would run a lot more smoothly, if second thoughts came first.

There are two kinds of people who can’t say much - those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Regret for the things we did is tempered by time.  It’s regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

A person will sometimes devote his entire life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Mohandas Gandhi on the things that will destroy us:

Politics without principle,

Pleasure without conscience,

Wealth without work,

Knowledge without character,

Business without morality,

Science without humanity,

Worship without sacrifice.

There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment.

-  Malcolm Hein