Quotes About Wisdom

The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.

He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.

I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.

Doing something stupid and reckless is not a better proof of your love than doing something measured and powerful.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.

And a Fool is supposed to be wise?

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

Do not pull back from the pain and imagine that makes you strong. Look at it, you dolt! It is trying to tell you what is wrong so you can fix it.

There is always power in holding a secret.

opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.

I know you think me foolish, but then, I am the Fool. You know then I must be Foolish.

If a man hits you once, he'll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I've been!

You should leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life, my brother. You may enjoy unending pain. I do not. There is no shame in walking away from bones, Changer. He finally swiveled his head to stare at me from his deep-set eyes. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you." "p. 94 Nighteyes to Fitz

No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

I was as foolish as I had ever been, no, even stupider, for the gullibility of a boy is fatuousness in a man.