"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem." ― Shmuel Y. Agnon Topic(s): Wisdom More From Shmuel Y. Agnon "If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after." More In Wisdom "The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."― George Santayana "Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."― Ray Kurzweil "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."― Confucius