Knowledge

Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times --Zhou Chongguo

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. --Friedrich Nietzsche

When you ask "Who am I?", you have learned a great deal. When you ask, "Why am I here?" you have discovered a secret of the universe. When you ask, "What is the meaning of life?" you have discovered the meaning of life.
The root of knowledge is ignorance, not knowledge -- Zen Li

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. --Lao Tze

If you know, to recognize that you know, If you don't know, to realize that you don't know: That is knowledge.
Life is finite, while knowledge is infinite.
Old horse knows the way.
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person for advice.
When you are not sure say, "Gung Ho" - I can do.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. --Confucius

Half a word to the wise is enough.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives -- Abba Eban
I am not young enough to know everything --Oscar Wilde

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. --Oscar Wilde

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. --John A Simone

The highest form of wisdom is kindness --from the Talmud

Silent Knowledge
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. --Plato
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens --Jimi Hendrix
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence
Silence is true wisdom's best reply --Euripides

Mistakes
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
--Confucius

Share your mistakes and they disappear.
--Zen Li

Disrespect
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

A friend ignored is a friend humiliated.
--Confucius

To disrespect a mistress is to humiliate a spouse.

Disrespect cannot live in the same house as understanding.

Telling a person you do not love them is regrettable. Saying to others you do not love the person next to you is shameful.
--Zen Li

Respect
Respect defines the difference between man and beast --Confucius

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn --Persian proverb

Respect is love in plain clothes. --Frankie Byrne

Respect the gift the universe offers and you receive many more. Reject a gift and the universe takes all the gifts away.

To consider another's opinion before voicing your own is respectful. To consider only your own opinion is disrespectful to the other, to consider only the other's opinion is disrespectful to yourself.

You cannot take respect, you can only give it.

To respect the body is to love the mind.
--Zen Li

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. --George Bernard Shaw

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves --Peter MacArthur

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom --John Gray

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others --Rene Torres

Material World
In the middle ages people sold their sewerage and drank from rivers. Now we sell rivers and drink sewerage.
In the 60's love was free and information cost money. Now information is free, and love...?
He who is grateful for having nothing is truly wealthy.
If all your money can steal their heart then they are not worthy of you.
It's not what you are that matters, its who you are.
The things we don't need are the things we can't live without.
A poor man gave a beggar his last coin, and a rich man gave a beggar only one coin. who is more blessed? "me" replied the beggar.
It is much harder to lose something you can never have.
--Zen Li


Wisdom from the Side
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

--Terry Pratchett

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russel

Don't play stupid with me...I'm better at it.

It is a tragedy of life that the toys we can afford when we are old we no longer enjoy.
It's not what you do, its who you do it with and who finds out. -- Zen Li

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. --Sam Levenson

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. --W.C. Fields

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? --Dick Cavett

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. --Groucho Marx

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. --Winston Churchill

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often. --Oliver Herford


Love
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen

A girl asked a boy if she was pretty. He said no. She asked him if he wanted to be with her forever. He said no. She then asked him if he would cry if she walked away. He said no. Humiliated, she walked away. He grabbed her arm and told her to stay, and said,
"You're not pretty, you're beautiful. I don't want to be with you forever, I need to be with you forever. I wouldn't cry if you walked
away, I would die."

Love is what comes before heartbreak.
--Zen Li

If you have Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
--James Barrie

In the end, it doesn't matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
--Xiang Xiong

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
--Bruce Lee

Relationships
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
--Rod Stewart

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
--Sharon Stone

The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in.

If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

Enlightenment is not the end of learning, just as a wedding is not the end of a relationship.
Our bodies are here to hold laughter and tears. They are the only things in the body with no purpose that we cannot live without.
--Zen Li