우리들이 가장 잘 알고 있는 것은 우습게도 이제까지 우리들이 한번도 배우지 못했던 것들이다. (The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.)
Korean Proverb, 한국 속담
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천재라는 것은 참을성을 갖춘 위대한 소질에 불과하다. (Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.)
Korean Proverb, 한국 속담
재산은 인생의 곤경에서 사람의 마음을 안심시켜 주기 위해 있는 것이지만, 인생은 재산을 모으기 위한 목적으로 있는 것이 아니다 (Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.)
Korean Proverb (한국 속담)
환경은 약한 자들의 통치자이며, 지혜로운 자들의 도구이다. (Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.)
Korean Proverb, 한국속담
A clear Milky Way and snaking clouds signal fog is near. If you know how earth, sky, yin and yang change, then the sun, moon and stars, the wind, forest, mountains and fire, become soldiers at your command.
Zhuge Liang, 诸葛亮, Red Cliff, 心・戰
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
As you perhaps know, I haven’t always been a Christian. I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
C.S. Lewis
Corruptissma republica plumirae leges. (In the most corrupt republic, the laws are most numerous.)
Tacitus, Annales III,27
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
J.R.R. Tolkien
우둔한 사람의 마음은 입밖에 있지만, 지혜로운 사람의 입은 그의 마음속에 있다. (The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.)
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