Quotes About Wisdom

If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little. *

The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them.

there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.

I can all but hear my Haudenoseunee grandfather's wry comments as he stopped to pick up litter on the roadside.

If you're stupid enough to sleep with your superior, you'd best be smart enough to use whatever you have left.

It's so easy to be catastrophically wrong. And so difficult to admit it to yourself, internalize it, and act upon the knowledge.

Politeness counts the effort, or so one of my clademothers used to say.

I can see the mouse's tail through thy teeth.

There were times to rise to the bait, and times not to.

How would she know, in the end, what was her desire and what was given her?

Scripture was comforting, in direct proportion to its bitterness upon the tongue.

In the long run, he thought, the new, fey Perceval with so many ancient souls behind her eyes might even be a match for Cynric the Sorceress, in wisdom if not in craft.

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I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.

Her skin was soft with age, the bones and tendons visible.

Continuity of experience is an illusion, old man.

Good Goth girls knew these things. Good comparative religion grad students knew them, too.

Hitting people almost never solves anything, and you can trust me on that. I was in the military.

Sometimes a thing can be true, and not for immediate sharing. That was, Connla had assured me more than once, how diplomacy worked.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Truth, but not very much of it, suitable for paddling your toes in.