Quotes About Wisdom

see nothing attractive in behaving like a fool when you don't have to.

Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien

But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know. She

If a man could only learn that you are not punished for the sin, but by it.

Without law, who will protect the mother and child who are tomorrow's strength? Who will protect the geniuses of the mind, the inventor, the artist who enriches the world but has not the power of money or physical ability to defend himself? Who will protect the wise who are old, and might fall victim to the powerful and foolish? Indeed who will protect the strong from themselves?

Why is it that one does not tell people things while there is time? One lets such trivial things matter.

am surprised your mother has not given you the same advice." Christina stared at her. "She has, she has done for years. I pay no attention. One's mother is always giving one good advice.

the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

The human heart is my school.

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

In the flesh," Maharet said. "In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea , beware the devil.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

Don't fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your enemies always said you might.

If you would have fleshly life, human life, hard life which can move through time and space, then fight for it. If you would have human philosophy, then struggle and make yourself wise, so that nothing can hurt you ever. Wisdom is strength. Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.' 

his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly about him, the way that he sat, the way he used this one hand to gesture. It was the decorum primitive people often have that makes them seem repositors of immense wisdom, when in fact all they possess is immense conviction.

You reflect your age differently. You reflect its broken heart.

Muy pocos seres buscan de verdad el conocimiento en este mundo. Mortales o inmortales, son escasos los que hacen preguntas. Al contrario, casi todos intentan extraer de lo desconocido las respuestas a las que ya han dado forma en sus propias mentes; justificaciones, confirmaciones, formas de consuelo sin las cuales serian incapaces de continuar adelante. Preguntar de verdad es abrir la puerta a un torbellino. La respues puede aniquilar a la vez la pregunta y quien la hace.

Don't be a fool for the devil, darling! Unless he treats you a damn sight better than the Almighty!

Wisdom is strength. Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.'