Quotes About Wisdom

You remind me, Geralt, of an old fisherman who, toward the end of his life, discovers that fish stink and the breeze from the sea makes your bones ache. Be consistent. Talking and regretting won't get you anywhere.

You remind me, Geralt, of an old fisherman who, towards the end of his life, discovers that fish stink and the breeze from the sea makes your bones ache. Be consistent. Talking and regretting won't get you anywhere. If I were to find that the demand for poetry had come to an end, I'd hang up my lute and become a gardener. I'd grow roses.

Ha, ha. I, my dear Ciri, am a poet. Poets know everything about things like this. I'll tell you something else; poets know more about this sort of thing than the people involved do.

Truth is one thing, poetry another.

There may no longer be faith nor truth in the world, but surely good sense still exists. What say you, Dandelion? Is there still good sense in the world? Or do only contemptibility and contempt remain?

It soon transpired, however, that the unicorn only approached youthful maidens, paying absolutely no attention to older ones. Being a wise creature, the unicorn indubitably knows that remaining too long in the state of maidenhood is suspicious and counter to the natural order. Physiologus

Unclear tasks,' said the witcher dryly, 'can't be clearly executed.

But you don't even know how to destroy things wisely,' Zoltan griped, ordering yet another attempt to pull a wheel out of a hole. 'Why can't you remove the stones gradually, from the edges of the road? You're like children! Instead of eating a doughnut systematically, you gouge the jam out with a finger and then throw away the rest because it's not sweet any more.

Veinte años al servicio de la poesía, suficiente tiempo como para saber que hay cosas que o se entienden al vuelo, incluso sin palabras, o nunca se las entenderá.

Hace falta decirte, buen brujo, quiénes son las buenas personas? Son aquéllas a las que el destino les ha escatimado las ocasiones de disfrutar de las ventajas de ser malos. O aquéllas que sí han dispuesto de tales ocasiones, pero han sido demasiado estúpidas para aprovecharlas.

Moje uznanie, Reinmarze. ?e? to, jak widz?, ?e uniwersytety mog? m?odzika nauczy? jeno pija?stwa, wszetecze?stwa i plugawej mowy. ?e?, zaprawd?.

Ignorance is no justification for ill-conceived actions. When one doesn't know or has doubts it's best to seek advice.

Nie jesteÅ›, cho? lubisz mniema? inaczej, specjalnie mÄ…dry. Ale na to, by spróbowa? mnie powstrzyma?, jesteÅ› za mÄ…dry.

Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

If you know not,' she interrupted, 'there is no place for any "but". You know not. You simply know not.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

We poets have to know about everything," said Dandelion haughtily. "Otherwise we'd compromise our work. One has to learn, my dear fellow, learn.

Z?o to z?o, Stregoborze - rzek? powa?nie wied?min wstaj?c. - Mniejsze, wi?ksze, ?rednie, wszystko jedno, proporcje s? umowne a granice zatarte. Nie jestem ?wi?tobliwym pustelnikiem, nie samo dobro czyni?em w ?yciu. Ale je?eli mam wybiera? pomi?dzy jednym z?em a drugim, to wol? nie wybiera? wcale.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

don't flap your ears and nothing horrible will fall into them.

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale

Gdyby umiejÄ™tno?? korzystania z doÅ›wiadczeÅ" i wyciÄ…gania wniosków decydowaÅ'y, dawno ju? zaponielibyÅ›my, czym jest wojna. Ale tych, którzy do wojny d???, nigdy nie powstrzymywaÅ'y i nie powstrzymajÄ… doÅ›wiadczenia ani analogie.

Local nitwits pretended to be well-informed.

La vita non ha niente a che vedere con la poesia! E sai perché? Perché è al di sopra di qualsiasi critica!