Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
Baltasar GracianRead
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Interpretation
Courage is essential for wisdom to have a meaningful impact.
This quote emphasizes the importance of courage as a prerequisite for the effective application of wisdom. It suggests that without the bravery to act on one's knowledge and insights, the potential benefits of that wisdom remain unrealized, rendering it ineffective in bringing about change or improvement.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students stepping into the unknown.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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