Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Interpretation
Wisdom is acquired more through experiences and choices than through inheritance or gifts.
This quote by Wilbur Wright emphasizes the idea that true wisdom, like wealth, is gained primarily through what individuals choose to preserve and learn from their experiences, rather than what is simply handed to them. It suggests that the process of saving knowledge, lessons, and insights plays a crucial role in developing a wise character, much like saving money contributes to financial richness.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one might say, 'Remember, men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.'
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.
I write to save someone's life, probably my own
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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