Quotes About Wisdom

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

How can I know what I'll do, until I've done it? How can I say?

It was said often at my monastery, 'The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.

For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me. Now

If you can read, you can learn anything.

I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.

I have been called a fool as often as I have been called a prophet.

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I have discovered that to

We cannot put old heads on young shoulders.

You are ill? No. Just Stupid. Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far.

When people do not know the past, they make the same mistakes their forebears made

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one other. It is power. It is a bond. It may be a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.

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

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

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.

Be Clever, Think Clever and Do Clever

The path of life is strewn with many perils and the folly of knowledge is one of the greatest dangers. Wisdom is a treacherous weapon, little master, for it is sundered from compassion. All too often the end of the journey gains more import than it should and the wise become blind to the road and the method of their passing.

Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.