Quotes About Wisdom

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool.

An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

The infallible teacher is still in the forest primeval, throwing seeds to the white blackbirds

We know no more than the ancients; we only know other things, but nothing in which is an assurance of perpetuity, and little that is truly wisdom.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

ACADEMIA: Originalmente enramada en la que los filósofos buscaban un sentido en la naturaleza; ahora, escuela en la que los imbéciles buscan un significado en la filosofía.

La vita è un dono, dei pochi ai molti, di coloro che sanno e che hanno a coloro che non sanno e che non hanno.

I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider's web.

Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

Young love is a treasure truly wasted on the young,

Sometimes a difficult journey does not deliver its full benefit until long after one returns. The trials are brief, but the wisdom gained lasts a lifetime!

I am a bottomless well of revelation but cannot force the ignorant to drink.

One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once.

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want. So Logen said nothing. Calder could take that for weakness if he pleased, and so much the better. Fights might find Logen depressingly often, but he was long, long past looking for them.

Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That's always good advice.' Jezal

But I'd rather not add to my regrets. The gods know I got a queue of the bastards.

There's no need to rush, Arch Lector. That's the trouble with good legs, you tend to run around too much. If you have trouble moving, on the other hand, you don't move until you damn well know it's time.

Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.

A length of wood does not by itself make a man wise, or noble, or powerful, any more than a length of steel does. Power comes from the flesh, my boy, and from the heart, and from the head. From the head most of all.

Recklessness didn't work out for me in the end." - Sand dan Glokta

A battle is no place for a self-respecting warrior, but if you must attend one at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't.

When you're planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.