The document contains 11 quotes on various topics including self-knowledge, parenting, happiness, childhood, poverty, peace, change, and words. The quotes are attributed to sources ranging from proverbs to famous individuals such as Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and William Shakespeare. Overall, the document presents short sayings and observations about human nature, society, and life.

1. ‘ Self-knowledge is like a garden. If it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.’ Guinean proverb

2. ‘ Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.’ Peter Ustinov

3. ‘ Every minute you spend being angry is sixty seconds in which you could have had a good time.’ Robert Stolz

4. ‘ Childhood is the bank-balance of the writer.’ Graham Greene

5. ‘ Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.’ Marcel Proust

6. ‘ The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it Because we see it: but what we do not see, We tread upon, and never think of it.’ Angelo in Measure for Measure William Shakespeare

7. ‘ Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.’ Benjamin Franklin

8. ‘ Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.’ Albert Einstein

9. ‘ In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future: the learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.’ Eric Hoffer

10. ‘ You can’t harness wishy-washiness.’ Bob Geldof

11. ‘ Words are like leaves; and where they abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found Alexander Pope