The words of wisdom...

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche


You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
-- Christy Mathewson


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails, Explore, Dream.
-- Mark Twain


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi


Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Alva Edison


By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth


You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
-- Naguib, Mahfouz


Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think.
-- Ambrose Bierce


The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell





[Thanks to my dear friend Mr. H. Okhravi for his great collection of the words of wisdom]
[Photo: "Anzali" national preserve and flower of lotus, beautiful province of Gilan, Iran]