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  • #1
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

  • #2
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

  • #3
    Eric Metaxas
    “Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”
    Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #8
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #9
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #10
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #11
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #12
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #19
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #22
    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #23
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #24
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

    "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

    "To establish ties?"

    "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #25
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #26
    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #27
    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #28
    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #29
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates

  • #30
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
    Anne Bradstreet



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