Quotes About Wisdom

Trust an old wizard when she says you did well.

Oh, little boy, when did you get so wise?

As an old crew chief of mine used to point out, you might be dead long before the problem you didn't have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it?

Whatever this child had from Strifbjorn…he was smarter than Strifbjorn had ever shown himself.

There was so much information, and I had so little sense of what any of it meant.

From the vantage of Cathoair's nineteen years, it was a span beyond bewildering into incomprehensible.

Thou wert always the teacher, wert thou not? The seducer with truths, the bestower of knowledge and power.

Comest thou to a snake for sympathy, Sir Poet?" "I come to a snake for information. What may be equally foolish.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

The art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isn't hard to master.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

If one didn't let oneself swallow some few lies, I don't know how one would ever carry the past.

Education is not so important as people think.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936]

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself—in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

But there's no end to what's been said, and I'll be a party to nothing. I was born with my mouth shut:those with their mouths open do nothing but start trouble and catch flies.

If one didn't let oneself swallow some few lies, I don't know how one would ever carry the past.

To love makes one less clever.

There are things a man can't undo, that a man can't disavow. But time has a way of making one see what is important, what is necessary and how change isn't always the bitter potion it is made out to be. – previous Duke of Hollindrake (grandfather to Thatcher, the tenth Duke of Hollindrake {hero})

Adults make mistakes too.