Quotes About Wisdom

Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.

When God means to punish a man He sends him stupid friends and clever enemies.

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

The wiser a man is, the more he stands ready to be educated.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

But that's what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you've been.

the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.

The faster you run from the past, the faster it catches you. All you can do is turn to face it. Embrace it. Try and meet the future wiser for it.

The food of fear is ignorance, Mother Gundring used to say. The death of fear is knowledge. When you study a race of men you find they are just men like any others.

Why do big men tend to have such little brains? Perhaps they get by on brawn too often, and their minds dry up like plums in the sun.

Pain is the best schoolmaster, as you will soon discover.

Shoglig was talking shit. That old bitch didn't know when I was going to die at all. If I'd known that I'd surely have worn more armour.' Whirrun made a sound somewhere between a cough and a laugh, then winced, coughed, laughed again, winced again. 'Fuck, it hurts. I mean, you know it will, but, fuck, it really does hurt. Guess you showed me my destiny anyway, eh, Craw?

If a man seeks to change the world, he should first understand it.

No one cares about the past any more,' he whispered. 'They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.' How

Words are weapons. They should be handled with proper care.

Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.

Aunt Love said no housework was ever wasted, that it had to be done sooner or later anyway, but Jocie noticed the sooner you did it the sooner you had to do it again.

Without books, a library was just a quiet room.

want to read

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

No hocus-pocus here. Just lots of living; it lends you some wisdom. Which I'm guessing is a trade-off for lost youth.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.