Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs