Quotes About Wisdom

Hwoinch!' said Hen Wen.

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another," he said, "for in it are good and evil mixed.

There are those," he said gently, "who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

What is the use of studying much when I'm to see nothing at all?

alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging

It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

Sanningen finns i allt om man bara kan förstå det.

Det är inte många, fortsatte han högmodigt, som förstår hur makt ska brukas. Och inte många som vågar bruka den när de blir erbjudna den.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have.

Inom de flesta av oss är gott och ont sammanflätade så tätt som trådarna på en vävstol. Större visdom än min krävs för den domen.

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have

In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

What you call ancient custom is just a bad habit. Somebody did something stupid long ago and you've been doing it ever since. It doesn't make anything better. It only gets stupider and stupider.

We humans now increasingly share in what used to be regarded as the omniscience and omnipotence of God.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.

It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .

Why do you and I have to hold these memories? It gives us wisdom, The Giver replied.