Wisdom
Knowledge is collected while wisdom is understood.
I find the following quotes of wisdom to be immensely useful in the persuit of truth. While there is just one ultimate source of truth, bits of truth have been revealed by various people throughout history. This is a living list as I continue to accumulate additional wisdom on the walk of life.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Reading makes a full man; Conference a ready man; And writing an exact man
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
To answer before listening— that is folly and shame.
Don't write a check with your mouth that your ass can't cash.