Quotes About Wisdom

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Is knowledge the pearl of price? That, too, may be purchased -- by steady application, and long solitary hours of study and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise.

Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung...

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

The best surviving key to Rus greatness is Kiev's Santa Sofia Cathedral, built in 1037 by one of the greatest Riurik princes, Prince Yaroslav the Wise. From the outside it looks much like any other baroque Ukrainian church, its original shallow Greek domes and brick walls long covered in gilt and plaster. But inside it breathes the splendid austerity of Byzantium.

Make sure you keep crawling, George. Don't think you've been discovered. Lots of guys were discovered that way, because they were imagining they'd already been discovered and then did something foolish.

Anna," the old woman said, "don't take everything so much to heart. Learn from me. There are things in this world you can change. And there are things in this world you can't change. Those things you have to put up with.

if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;

Good Luck is rather particular who she drives with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find things out for themselves; but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was more prompt and perfect in it's way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

Yeah. It's a Spanish thing. They respect age. They celebrate growing older. Not like in our country, where youth is perceived to be everything, and everyone over fifty is past it.

There was no point in weeping for ever for things that you couldn't change, things you could not have. It had stood her in good stead all of her life

Soon, I'll be alone in a quiet room where, for the rest of my life, I can float farther and farther out into the world; while my student, charging off the end of every map, falls deeper and deeper into the well of himself. 'Never be afraid to enter an argument you can't immediately see yourself out of.' Can anyone tell me what a tragedy is?

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Oh, no. He was furry, not stupid.

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.

Lesson one, bitch. Don't start a pissing contest with someone who has the strength and temper to hurt you.

Have you taught her to kill, Priest? Can you teach her such a thing? She's so wise in her innocence, so innocent in her wisdom.

She would have told her to respect her limitations as well as her abilities.

You're only twenty-four," he said. "You have plenty of scars for someone your age.

On the other hand, he firmly believed that ignorance was bullshit, not bliss.