“Knowledge perpetuates luck and luck perpetuates knowledge”— Zakhaddin Khalidov Related Quotes “I contend that good children’s stories are always about the Getting of Wisdom. That’s another way of saying, “Let your characters grow. Up.” And good stories for adults are about the Holding of Wisdom. Another way of saying, “Recognize you are grown up.”— Jane Yolen “And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.”— Carl Sagan “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”– Sholom Aleichem