Quotes About Wisdom

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

Aun los mejores hombres, si actúan por sí mismos, cometerán graves equivocaciones. Mientras mayores responsabilidades se coloquen sobre el agente humano, mientras más encumbrado sea su cargo para determinar y controlar, más males hará con seguridad pervirtiendo mentes y corazones si no sigue cuidadosamente el camino del Señor.

A good king knows when to save his strength and when to destroy his enemies.

I learned how to die a long time ago.

Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better

Warum sollte der Tod einen Mann ehrlicher oder gar klüger machen? Die Toten sind wahrscheinlich dumme Kerle, die sich unaufhörlich beklagen - die Erde ist zu kalt, mein Grabstein sollte größer sein, warum hat er mehr Würmer als ich...

Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer. O homem que nunca lê vive apenas uma.

Though the centuries have passed since Koheleth looked upon all things and found them fickle as wind, yet still we know little of what goes to the making of a man—least surely of all, why usually there issue forth only those who see what is, and why rarely, now and then, there comes forth among them the chosen one, Child of the Blessing, who sees not what is, but sees what is not, and seeing thus what is not, imagines also what may be. Yet without this rare one all men are as beasts.

Only now and then had the scholar also become the ruler—Marcus Aurelius, Thomas More, Woodrow Wilson.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.