Quotes About Wisdom

I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them." He

he just seemed—not so much like a dad but like any person who didn't have things figured out. Maybe the world is a mystery to everyone, even the smartest people or the oldest people, even

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Teoria sbagliata - Un filosofo che non poteva camminare perché si pestava la barba, si tagliò i piedi.

The changes we swear to fight off with savage claws in our twenties end up creeping over us like a rising tide in our thirties.

It's one of the perks of aging, I suppose—an eagerness to release the baggage that doesn't serve you. I know this goes against common wisdom; our therapy-obsessed culture seems to think old wounds must be reopened before they can heal. I'm not sure I agree.

Child, I have been around a lot of years, and if you don't laugh, you cry.

We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman

An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz