900 – 「敢于 发问，羞耻 一时，知 耻 于 发问，愚昧 一生。」

“Gǎnyú fāwèn, xiūchǐ yīshí, zhī chǐ yú fāwèn, yúmèi yīshēng.”

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

Literal Translation: “Dare to ask questions, shame for a time, to have shame to ask questions, ignorance for a lifetime.”

-Chinese Proverb

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632 – “A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”

–Václav Havel

141 – “Understand that you own nothing, everything that surrounds you is temporary, only the love in your heart will last forever.”

– Leon Brown [dubious attribution]