Quotes About Wisdom

A sword has a voice.

patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

Hay que aprender las lecciones de la historia. Los errores del pasado deben cometerse una sola vez —hizo una breve pausa y luego añadió—. A menos que no haya otro remedio.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

Battles may sometimes be won by the brave, but wars are always won by the clever.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters." "That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.

Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

El necio ataca -le había dicho-. El sabio sonríe, observa y aprende...y luego ataca.

It all slips by so fast. Slips by and you hardly notice, like leaves on the water. Savour the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.

Knowledge isn't always a gift, d'you see? Sometimes it's better we be swaddled in the comforting darkness of ignorance.

I despise violence. It is the last tool of feeble minds.

The fool strikes, she had said. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

All things considered, and well against the run of luck, he reckoned he'd come out alright. Might be he'd lost an eye down here in Styria. Might be he was leaving no richer than when he'd stepped off the boat. But he was a better man, of that he'd no doubt. A wiser man. Used to be he was his own worst enemy. Now he was everyone else's.

But then, you reach a certain age, everything hurts.

Un hombre debe ser capaz de conocer sus propias limitaciones.

Fighting every fight you're offered doesn't make you a big man, it makes you a fool.

The best lessons one teaches oneself.

The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are the dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.