Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
-Albert Schweitzer
Do not succumb to hate and anger, for they are like icebergs in the ocean of life and many a good soul shipwrecked on them. Only with the eternal flame of love and humility can they be melted down until they dissolve and pose a danger no more.
-Klaus A. Hamacher
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
-Henri Stendhal
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom.
By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
-The Sutra of Hui Neng
Fear is like a candle whose flame helps a person distinguish goodness from evil; and fear of God allows a person to turn away from evil. Those who fear mere creatures flee from them; but those who fear God flee to Him.
-Rabi'a
To follow knowledge like a sinking star
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought…
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
-Tennyson
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
-Leo Stein
Delight not in excessive luxury, for double is its poverty
-Apocrypha