"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
(Socrates)


"Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half."
(Unknown)
 

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always
tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"
(Sydney Harris)



"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came,
there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
(James Baldwin)


"I need no takers to leave me half empty,
I'd rather be alone half full."
(Nikki Grimes, "The Takers")


"Get there and you will soon decide how to manage."
(Kigezi Proverb)


"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
(Proverb)


"As things/come let's destroy them we can destroy what we be/come
let's build what we become when we dream."
(Nikki Giovanni, "Word Poem (Perhaps Worth Considering), (1968))
 


"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from
the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am
ungrateful to those teachers".
(Kahlil Gibran)
 
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage;
since there are many who had rather meet their
bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts
in their closet."
-(Charles Caleb Colton)


"Better to write for yourself and have no public,
than to write for the public and have no self."
(Cyril Connolly)


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"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well
than a fool can from a mountain top."
(Unknown)


"Four things come not back: the spoken word,
the spent arrow,the past, the neglected opportunity."
(Omar Idn Al-Halif)


"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely
with one's knowledge of the facts,
the less you know, the hotter you get."
(Bertrand Russell)


"It is within the experience of everyone,
that when the pleasure and pain reach
a certain intensity, they are indistinguishable."
(Arnold Bennett)


"I had a dream my life would be different from this hell that I am living,
so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."
(Victor Hugo)


"I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart
and speaks forth another."
(Homer)


"Drawing on my find command of the language,:
I said nothing."
(Unknown


"If a little knowledge is dangerous,
where is the man who has so much
as to be out of danger?"
(Thomas Huxley)


"The reality of the other person
lies not in what he reveals to you
but in what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him,
listen not to what he says
but rather what he does not say."
(Kahlil Gibran)



"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts
he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating
at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger,
which he knows that he was meant and made to do."
(Phillips Brooks)



"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair."
(Kahlil Gibran)



"This is just life; it's not to be cried over, just understood."
(Ralph Ellison, "And Hickman Arrives", (1960))


"When you starts measuring somebody,
measure him right, child, measure him right.
Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys
he came through before he got to wherever he is."
(Lorraine Hansberry, "A Raisin In The Sun")


"Not everything that is faced can be changed;
but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
(James Baldwin)



"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is condusive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it."
(Buddha)


"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man
far better than through mortal friends."
(S. Weir Mitchell)


"Just living is not enough...
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
(H.C. Anderson)


"This is my simple religion: there is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple,
the philosophy is kindness."
(H.H. the Dalai Lama)


"Death twitches my ear.
"Live," he says,
"I am coming."
(Virgil)


It is said
that when Buddha
first had his enlightenment
he was asked,
"Are you a God?"
"No," he replied.
"Are you a saint?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
And he answered, "I am awake."
(Unknown)


"I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest.
Or when, even as just now, I've tried to articulate
exactly what I felt to be the truth."
(Ralph Ellison)


"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
(Elbert Hubbard)


"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him,
that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will
go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found.
He will look for solutions and answers at every point
except where they can be found..
..in himself."
(Erich Frohm)


"When you come right down to it, all you have is your self.
Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly.
The rest is nothing."
(Pablo Picasso)


Knowing others is wisdom,
Knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
- Lao-Tzu