“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, & once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you & what you’d like to be, & you’ve lost your true self forever.”
“True wisdom, we begin to see, is not the same thing as cleverness. Wisdom is bound up with moral qualities, such as courage, integrity, justice & moderation.”
Believe nothing because a wise person said it. Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be Divine. Believe nothing because someone else believes it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.