Quotes About Wisdom

Bet kai esi labai protingas, tai, manau, kas nors gali išmušti tave iš v?ži?, jeigu nepasisaugosi

And perhaps I I didn't even understand the young when I was young. That could be true too.

Well, in one sense, I can't know what it is that I don't know. That's philosophically selfevident." He left one of those slight pauses in which we again wondered if he was engaged in subtle mockery or a high seriousness beyond the rest of us.

at my age, one must ration one's excitement

All the world knows it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

But then, as she told herself, who would learn better than she that hindsight is a prism that alters everything?

What uif God and the truth are the same thing? What if the truth is at the center of everything? If you believe in that, you believe that the truth will win out in the end. It will reveal itself...

We think we're so clever. And yet we're always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a woman, I put away childish things.

Do the girls emerge quite ruined for marriage after you stuff them full of knowledge? I should imagine most of our girls emerge less tolerant of fools, if that's what you mean. - Dryden and Phoebe

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.

Love.' What a wilderness of pain, of yearning, of loss could be contained in that word. Patient and kind nonsense, is how Lady Fennimore had put it. Love wasn't for cowards; he wondered if it was for the wise. He supposed love itself made you stupid at first, or no one, no one would ever fall in love at all.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

sometimes the most simple conclusion is also the most correct

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

A soft answer turneth away wrath." OLD TESTAMENT

the last complete sentence she ever utters is "It's a good thing there's birds.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that simple is not exactly the same as easy.

Boredom is why God invented books.

A wonder tale can be truer than true, I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

Look forward, not back, the Hag said. All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.

I often tell myself, there is no point in wishing certain things had not happened. We can't change what has been, only do our best with what is to come.

Quem é esta mulher? De cabelo cor de fogo Olhos sábios como os de uma coruja Mãos fortes como as de um guerreiro Delicadas como as de uma mãe, Toda ela é guerra por fora E bondade por dentro Segue o seu rumo O seu nome é Blackthorn Quem é este homem? Força nas mãos Verdade nos olhos Amor no coração Honra no seu espírito O nome dele é Grim