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.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
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