"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

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"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

— Alexander Pope

Literature1688–1744

#wisdom

"The systems view is the emerging contemporary view of organized complexity, one step beyond the Newtonian view of organized simplicity, and two steps beyond the classical world views of divinely order…"

— Ervin László

Philosophy1932

#wisdom

"The Christian message is not an exhortation — "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that."

— Halford E. Luccock

Politics1885–1960

#wisdom

"She wanted to tell me. Maybe she even tried. But she couldn't. It wasn't because I was only twelve. It was because I was her child, created by her and Father because they wanted to be in bed together …"

— William Faulkner

Literature1923–1962

#family