Quotes About Wisdom

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.

stupidity can be as bad as malice

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.

To a man of certain age... all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

He who plots revenge must dig two graves.

It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. I

I'd have been a fool not to have thought of it, and a greater fool not to have thought better of it.

If you don't understand something, you should just try to learn more, that's all.

He smiled, recapturing her hand. "A very wise woman once told me—you just go on. I've never encountered any good advice that didn't boil down to that, in the end. Not even my father's." I want to be with you always, so you can make me laugh myself well.

I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.

Miles swallowed icy spit. Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.

Anyone who desires to see the gods face-to-face is a great fool

Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy. Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless.

When I was twenty, I knew everything about my future. Now, I know nothing.

To a man of a certain age, Cazaril, all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

Do not deny the gods. And they will not deny you." As Oswyl stared at him, he went on, "Dangerous habit, mind you. Once you start to let Them in through that first crack, They're worse than mice.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

No me sorprendería. El hermano de milord, Mark, dice que la integridad es una enfermedad, y tan sólo puede contagiártela alguien que la padece.

Miles repented his younger sexual reticence altogether, now. Profoundly. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. And Bel had been beautiful, in its own ironic way, living and moving at ease in a body athletic, healthy, and trim.