Quotes About Wisdom

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Wild Fremen said it well: Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on. How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.

El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I have said: Blow out the lamp! Day is here! And you keep saying: Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Growing older is to grow more wicked.

A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.

You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.

More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.