Quotes About Wisdom

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?

Then I thought about it and wondered if I would ever reach a place in which I ceased finding out how stupid I could be.

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

I don't think any two pains are ever exactly the same, Hap. But the part about being a fool, oh, yes.

Once, she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.

A man has to set limits on his magic and on himself. Setting limits is part of being a man.

Oh, I think that children pray so, to find a lost doll or that Father will bring home a good haul of fish, or that no one will discover a forgotten chore. Children think they know what is best for themselves, and do not fear to ask the divine for it. But I have been a man for many years, and I should be shamed if I did not know better by now.

Had he his way, paper would be as common as bread, and every child would learn his letters before he was thirteen. But even were it so, I do not think this would bring to pass all he hopes. He mourns of all the knowledge that goes into a grave each time a man dies, even the commonest of men.

fell silent. "When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. Let's start

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

Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

Why?" A simple question unlocks best

A simple question unlocks best.

And while you're 'hearing' all this vital gossip, I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows. And that he who carries tales has little else in his head. Do you understand me, Brant?

What else?' Chade

No hagas lo que no puedas deshacer, hasta que hayas considerado lo que no podrás deshacer cuando lo hayas hecho.

I felt suddenly old, and hastily entered Chade's chambers to remind myself that he was much older than I was.

And that he who carries tales has little else in his head.

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back.

He said that the longer life is, the more important it is to keep your friends, to not have quarrels that can be avoided." His smile faded a bit, and for a time he looked troubled. "He said that, as a soldier, he had learned that a man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.

One can only rule what one knows.

Some old warriors are like good weapons. Their scars become the patina of experience and wisdom.

The wisest man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.

War later is almost always better than war now.