Quotes About Wisdom

Speak openly. There is no one I trust more than Lutian. (Adara) He's a half-wit, my queen. (Xerus) Half-wit, whole-wit, I have enough of them to know to keep silent. So speak, good counselor, and let the queen judge which of the two of us is the greater fool present. (Lutian)

Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)

The truth is often painful

They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei) I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)

I believe you said earlier, Miss James, that an ounce of prevention– (Morgan) Is worth an army of pistols. (Serenity)

There are times when I swear that boy is as mature as an old man, and other times when he hasn't got the sense of a three-year-old babe. (Mavis) Good Lord, Mavis. He is a grown man after all! (Alice)

I guess it doesn't make sense to hate you anymore. As Lorelei is so quick to say, the past is the past and it can do us no harm unless we let it. (Jack)

Callie. (Sin) Aye. (Callie) Can you teach me what love is? (Sin)

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth

Time should move," Noni had told her. "Don't go in for a life where time doesn't pass, the way I did. That is the single best bit of advice I can give you.

Enlightenment and tolerance, it would seem, have little to do with being lettered or unlettered. His

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to Golden Rule than to gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received

The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength

he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He'd already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.

What we both overlooked was the fact that insight is not only gained by personal reflection, often it is acquired by unexpected experiences that bring new perspectives to our analysis.

humanity has spent too much time in the children's section of the universal library,

I believe in the essential wisdom of the notion of infinite diversity in infinite combinations. The evolution of other species does not have to limit ours. Existence is not a zero-sum equation.

You couldn't control or changed anything that's happened. We just do the best we can at any given time, make the bedt choices possible, and learn to live with the rest

You will learn no more once you have decided you know