Wisdom

"The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is "I Am proud of you"."

"If your situtation is the fault of anything or anyone else...there is very little hope and absolutely zero power over your own life."Responsibility is about hope and control. And...who doesn't want hope for a greater future that their choices control? ... Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the wisdom that can change their lives."

"When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility."

"Old Ways May Not Give You Up An elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Islam by discarding the very beliefs in spirits and mystical inanimate objects that have held our societies together for more three centuries. He threw his fetishes in a nearby lake. Sadly he turned and walked away from the lake and the traditions. As the elder walked away, the fetishes leaped out of the lake onto his back again to reclaim him.“Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe"

"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."

"Don't spread negativity, that stuff is contagious and ruins us. The good news is, positivity can also be contagious and it lifts us."

"You are nothing less than a miracle!"

"No matter the source of our creation let us give honor to that source."

"To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree."

"I have never felt the need to worship someone or something, but I recognize the beauty of creation, the miraculosity of existence, and honor the genius behind the scene, who came up with all of this."

"Teach those only willing to listen and listen to those only willing to teach"

"You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age."

"I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."

"If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out."

"I never realized it was all a game,until I started winning."

"We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God—as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level."

"Maybe, I thought, Knight would talk about the marrow. He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to revel the meaning of life."Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he had learned. I accepted it as truth."

"We are all a little broken, looking for something whole to hang on to. But sometimes, what seems whole is even more broken than we are."

"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives."