
“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 10, p. 272.
“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
Source: The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
The Sayings of the Wise (1555), p. 128
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 414.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.”
As quoted in "The Sleep of Trees" (1980) by Jane Yolen, in Tales of Wonder (1983) by Jane Yolen, p. 33
“Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 523.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General