those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meagre.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. Be famous then by wisdom; as thy empire must extend, so let extend thy mind o'er all the world.