Quotes About Wisdom

As you get older, it's more difficult to have heroes, but it's just as necessary.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

There is a Universal Creative Force connecting all beings and things, a source of love and wisdom that can be drawn from and revealed through the creation of works of art.

In an ideal world, the voices that teach us language teach us self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Those same voices also form in us humility and gratitude, and as those voices inform our inner voices, they also pass on wisdom.

The warrior trains their mind to know the good and beautiful and true.

Wisdom is the warrior's greatest weapon. When you have wisdom, you are never unarmed, you are never defenseless, and you are never powerless. You need skill to know how to shoot an arrow straight, but only wisdom can teach you how to never need to shoot it. Wisdom is not the result of having learned enough; it comes when you know there is never enough learning.

The warrior is like a river, with fluid and adaptive moves. The warrior is not rigid or unchanging. The warrior is not like a stone that cannot be broken but like water that even when cut in two cannot be divided. It is not a weapon that makes you a warrior—it is your wisdom.

Wisdom understands that it is less important to win a fight or a point than it is to win the person. Wisdom knows that you should never fight against people; you should fight for them.

The fool feels powerful because they have a weapon in their hand; the warrior knows they are powerful when their hands are empty.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

El sudor ahorra sangre, la sangre ahorra vidas, y el cerebro, las dos cosas.

AÈ™ vrea s? fiu mai bine un n?tâng, decât un înÈ›elept vestind nenorociri. S? se petreac? toate minunat chiar împotriva minÈ›ii mele!

Giova sembrare stolti senza esserlo

Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse...

Dios nos conduce por el eterno camino de la sabiduría, y la verdad sólo se aprende a costa de sufrirla.

Todo lo enseña, con la vejez, el tiempo.

Nagyon kézre állt, és azóta is nagyon vonzónak tartom Eco gondolkodásának a módját: a lehetÅ' legtöbb tudással a kétely állapotában lenni.

If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.

If you can't do, you had best shut up. He started to slam the door, thought better of it. If you can't do, you'd best not slam doors.

a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Does one grow wise in increments? By fractioning a life and then summing it? By stacking sand? An infant, in his first sleepiness, must let go of the world; a man must learn to die. What comes between are the grains of sand. Ambition. Loss. Envy. Desire. Hatred. Love. Tenderness. Joy. Shame. Loneliness. Ecstasy. Ache. Surrender. Live long enough and you will solve them all.

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