"Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them."

Wisdom, Learning, Mistake, Truth, Discipline

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"Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them."

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"A book is a sacred gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver."

Patience Johnson, Nigerian Author

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"In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In every situation, we can find sacred lesson."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"The story becomes clearer with time."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life."

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"That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart."

Success

"He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant, he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things."

Knowledge

"Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls."

Nature

"Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle."

Truth

"Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time."

Wisdom

"Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography."

Existence

"Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on."

Family

"The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."

Mindfulness

"The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so."

Life

"There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise."

Art