Quotes About Wisdom

There is learning in everything

Only a fool gives up his one treasure.

a small, spare, gray-haired man whose face had the calm acceptance of one whose spirit has remained whole through a lifetime of trials.

Your kind have forgotten the old ways," says Eirne. "You have forgotten the importance of the tales, the wisdom of the past, the strength that rises from tree and stone and stream, the bond between one world and the other.

The world needs its bards and its philosophers. It also needs its warriors, its heroes, its bold voyagers.

Of course you will make errors; we all do. But you must learn from your mistakes. Learn quickly, and when you get something wrong, admit it and apologize.

Natural magic, the kind that lets you use what is already present, the power of earth, air, fire and water, to help you in times of need. Small tricks, maybe, but deep ones.

The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.

To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean "to think", but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one's consciousness into it.

di lahat ng payo makakabuti para sa 'tin dahil di man lahat ng naranasan ng iba..ay kagaya ng eksaktong nararanasan ng bawat isa.

El muchacho le explicó, como pronunciando un sermón, que el mundo de los hombres era vil y estaba lleno de mentiras. En él, solo el arte conducía a la vida verdadera y eterna, y él mismo era grande porque sabía lo que se encontraba más allá de las puertas del arte. La muchacha no podía dudar de la nobleza de sus palabras.

By tradition, a teacher was a most revered figure, a mentor for life, who imparted wisdom as well as knowledge, and who must be respected like a parent. (The murder of a teacher was classified as parricide, which, like treason, was punishable by death of a thousand cuts.) Emperors and princes set up shrines in their homes to honour their deceased tutors.

The gung-ho spirit overrode caution, as ignorance triumphed over reason.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge

Festina lente. You know what that means? Hurry slowly. Bene. He smiled. -A Good & Happy Child

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth: Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

Nindak niyare rakhiye aangan kuti chhawaye; Bin sabun pani bina nirmal karat subhaye.

And who is it that gives you your strength? He who gives you your clear vision.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

Was ist Magie anderes als eine Technik, die die meistens Menschen nicht verstehen - noch nicht oder nicht mehr ?