Quotes About Wisdom

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?

They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.

And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult, Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. —from 'The Humanity of Muad'Dib' by the Princess Irulan

not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Every experience carries it's lesson

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... She held up four big-knuckled fingers. .. 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... She closed her fingers into a fist. .. without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken." It was a Bene Gesserit axiom.

How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How can you tell what's ruthless unless you've plumbed the depths of both cruelty and kindness? You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach.

When we think we know something, that's precisely the moment when we should look deeper into the thing.

Lord, are you telling me that you are not really a god? I am telling you that I do not play hide-and-seek with death.

Mutlak bilgiye sahip ç?kmak gaddarl?kt?r. Bilgi, belirsizliÄŸin k?y?s?ndaki sonsuz bir macerad?r.

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…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…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

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

Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition

Tibana was an apologist for Socratic Christianity, probably a native of IV Anbus who lived between the eighth and ninth centuries before Corrino, likely in the second reign of Dalamak. Of his writings, only a portion survives from which this fragment is taken: "The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

That was the Bene Gesserit view of history, ancient Santayana's words resonating in their lives: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Do not give someone a stick with which to beat you.

A world is supported by four things. …" She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "… 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. …" She closed her fingers into a fist. "… without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

La prudenza è la via della mediocrità. La mediocrità priva di passioni è tutto ciò che tanta gente crede di poter raggiungere.

tomorrow has not happened and may never happen. This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe. I tell you to savor this moment and understand what it teachers.