Be humble, because the most important thing to learn is how to learn; the more you learn, the more you realize how much you don't know.
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“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”― Leonardo DaVinci

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”― Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”― Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”― Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”― Leonardo da Vinci

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”― Marcus Aurelius

“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”― Marcus Aurelius

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”― Marcus Aurelius

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”― Marcus Aurelius

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”― Marcus Aurelius

“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”― Marcus Aurelius

“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”― Marcus Aurelius

"What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you" ― Marcus Aurelius

"Remember two things - that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose" ― Marcus Aurelius

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”― Epictetus

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”― Epictetus

“The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.”― Zeno

“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”― Zeno of Citium

“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”― Zeno of Citium

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”― Diogenes

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”― Seneca

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”― Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”― Seneca

“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”― Seneca

"It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first." ― Miyamoto Musashi

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”― Miyamoto Musashi

“The strong is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger”― Prophet Mohammad

‍“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.”― Miyamoto Musashi

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”― Confucius

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”― Confucius

“Study the past if you would define the future.”― Confucius

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”― Confucius

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”― Confucius

"I am the way, the life and the Truth." ― Jesus
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"Love your neighbor as yourself." ― Jesus

"Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us." ― Jesus

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility...” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."― Jesus

Real wisdom is putting these truths to action. $BESTRONG
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