Quotes About Wisdom

That was a fine story," I told her, "one of the best that I've ever heard." "I had to live it," she replied, "and it is far better to hear such stories than to live them, I promise you, though it ended so happily.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.' Hildegrin

You're old when your dreams become regrets

It is not well to spend one's symbols improvidently.

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

that's something I didn't understand until recently: you don't get that degree; it gets you.

There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.

Something like that." "You

all the things people have said were The Secret after they had talked to mystagogues on far worlds or studied the popul vuh of the magicians, or fasted in the trunks of holy trees.

Solitude has great attractions for the wise.

Death is nothing, and for that reason you must fear it.

You must know that for certain simples to attain their highest virtues they must be pulled from grave soil by moonlight.

Flechas tengo para el corazón del sabio, Guiadas por la naturaleza infalible hasta el blanco, Pero cuando tiendo mi arco ante la multitud de la llanura, Los ignorantes sólo oyen al viento y a él todo lo atribuyen".

Because there is no opportunity to act. It is always wise to talk a great deal, discussing what has been done and what may be done, when nothing can be done. All the great political movements of history were born in prisons.

it's not wise to deny everything you can't understand.

I knew that I was a child, and that no man can be a man who is not.

I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones. He smiled at that. You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die.

No," said Ultan. "I mean that the library itself extends beyond the walls of the Citadel. Nor, I think, is it the only institution here that does so. It is thus that the contents of our fortress are so much larger than their container.

Of the trail of ink there is no end,'" Master Ultan told me. "Or so a wise man said. He lived long ago—what would he say if he could see us now? Another said, 'A man will give his life to the turning over of a collection of books,' but I would like to meet the man who could turn over this one, on any topic.

You may kiss me and eat one bite of my apple," she told him. "One bite, no more." He was frightened, and shook his head. "One bite will let you understand everything." Her voice was music. "Two bites would let you understand more than everything, and more than everything is too much." He backed away. The

When my grandson-in-law heard about it, he was fairly struck flat for half a day. Then he pasted up a kind of hat out of paper and held it over my stove, and it went up, and then he thought it was nothing that the cathedral rose, no miracle at all. That shows what it is to be a fool—it never came to him that the reason things were made so was so the cathedral would rise just like it did. He can't see the Hand in nature.

For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps.

we know little of the things for which we pray

the harm that's in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.