I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?.
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In essence the journey to wisdom is a study of self,The conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious self.
For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.
Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ...[G]reat scholars are now as little nourished by the past as the most ignorant mechanic who holds that "history is bunk..." [for] ...when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer's development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man's colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the "present state of the question." To regard the ancient writer as a possible source of knowledge-to anticipate that what he said could possibly modify your thoughts or your behavior-this would be rejected as unutterably simple-minded. ... [Therefore, even though] learning makes a free commerce between the ages... every generation [is cut] off from all others... [and] ...characteristic errors of one [are not] corrected by the characteristic truths of another.
Stars are dusts from wise men.
I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it.
A woman is a mother, daughter, and sister of every man; how she could be wrong?
Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.
Women dream a lot and man is the prince of that dream land.
By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.
Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.
A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.
If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle.
Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.
The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.
Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came.
Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.
_, Muse of the Heart__ Passion,let me relive my Love__ memory,to remember her body, so brave and so free,and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,_, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!