Quotes About Wisdom

That's really what all books are, isn't it? I mean, lists of secrets and things you only wish you'd done - a sort of deathbed confession where you're trying to get it all out while the lights are still on.

Good books are always about everything.

YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?

As Albert Einstein said: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

the wisdom of crowds is sometimes overwhelmed by the madness of mobs.

There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there, where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.

To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.

Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!

You, the Elder Folk, like to say that hatred is alien to you, that it is a feeling known only to humans. But it is not true. You know what hatred is and are capable of hating, you merely evince it a little differently, more wisely and less savagely. But because of that it may be more cruel.

Anyone,' Avallac'h wiped his hands on a rag, 'can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.

L'intolleranza e la superstizione sono sempre state prerogativa della parte più stupida del volgo e credo che non saranno mai estirpate, perché sono eterne quanto la stupidità stessa. Là dove oggi torreggiano le montagne un giorno ci saranno i mari, là dove oggi si agitano i mari un giorno ci sarà il deserto. Ma la stupidità rimarrà stupidità.

Vea -dijo el brujo-, tenías razón. - ¿Hmm? - Él es el más hermoso.

On tylko tak gÅ'upio wyglÄ…da - potwierdziÅ' Jaskier. - Ale caÅ'y czas liczÄ™ na to, ?e wreszcie zechce mu siÄ™ wyt??y? mózgownicÄ™. Mo?e wyciÄ…gnie sÅ'uszne wnioski? Mo?e zrozumie, ?e jedynÄ… czynnoÅ›ciÄ…, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwaÅ't?

Ty, kapcanie, gdyby? w zupie po?kn?? karalucha, to w kiszkach wi?cej by? mia? rozumu ani?eli w g?owie.

Don't mistake the stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

Muchos de entre los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver la vida? Entonces no te apresures a dispensar la muerte, pues ni el más sabio conoce el fin de todos los caminos.

And only then did I understand how stupid I was.