Quotes About Wisdom

The first weapon you bring to any fight ain't a spear or an arrow or an axe." Flick blinked at him. "Sword?" "Surprise," said Clover. "Surprise makes brave men cowards, strong men weak, wise men fools.

The tree is only as strong as its roots, and knowledge is the root of power.

Perhaps we'll have some answers, at least, before the end. I always dreamed of dying well-informed.

Cuanto más se aprende, más cuenta se da uno de lo poco que sabe. Aun así, el propio esfuerzo compensa. Al fin y al cabo, el conocimiento es la raíz de todo poder.

La ignorancia es la más dulce de las medicinas.

If you build your boat from cheese, d'you see, you can't wail at the heavens when it sinks, for cheese is known to be a poor material for boat-building.

Kings needs cool tempers.

A wise man once told me you have to be realistic.

Aye, well, I've said a lot of shit in my time that didn't add up to much.

Um homem que não quer opiniões deveria manter a boca fechada.

People are far more stupid than that.

Oh yes, you understand better than most how this will work. Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

You've an excellent eye. They're shit. But that's how you know what a truly great teacher I am. Any fool can get results from the gifted.

There was no magic to it. She simply listened, observed, and made sure she never spoke until she knew what she was speaking of. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

It's a sorry fact that the man who strikes first usually strikes last,

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing." Isern carved a little piece of chagga from a dried-out chunk. "Like most things, it's a matter of how you look at it." "Very profound." "As always." "Maybe someone whose head hurt less would enjoy your wisdom more.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Stour might be both, but you're neither.

You are ragged for a merchant.' 'I didn't say I was a good one.' 'And young,' said the captain. 'I didn't say I was an old one.' 'Where is your ship?' 'At sea.' 'Why are you not aboard?' 'I thought it wise to leave before it touched the bottom.

No podemos corregir las necedades de cada idiota, igual que no podemos corregir la marea. —

You are as wise as you are beautiful, Thorn Bathu.

The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain.

He'll trip over his own cock soon enough, then you can laugh at the outcome without getting your hands dirty. If I've learned one thing, it's that there's rarely any need to wade into the bitter ocean for your vengeance. It'll wash up on the shore soon enough.

The dead save me from the fucking young.' 'No getting away from 'em, sadly,' muttered Clover. 'The older you get, the more of 'em there are.

Broad kept sweeping. He'd learned in Styria there's a lot of things that are better not thought about. Couldn't be a coincidence that the happiest men Broad had ever known were generally the stupidest.