Quotes About Wisdom

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

A che pro disegnare l'Impossibile? Perché è la verità, forse velata e mascherata, ma eterna.

The clay pot wishes to laugh at the iron pot. --Trinidad proverb

If you see your neighbor's beard on fire, water your own. --Martinique proverb

We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge.

Fjärilar skola veta att dö medan solen skiner.

But life should not be traded for gold—a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.

The elders teach us: be a trickster, and you will survive.

If I don't know I don't know I think I know If I don't know I know I think I don't know

One cannot say everything at once.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

The library knows its own mind," old Master Hyrrokkin told him, leading him back up the secret stairs. "When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.

What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom? And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?

I'm starting to question our choice of life skills," she whispered to him. "I know. Why aren't we samurai?" "Let's be samurai," she said.

It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

Tú no eres tonta, Madrigal —dijo Brimstone—. Si hay algo que deseas, persíguelo. La esperanza tiene poder. No la malgastes en cosas sin sentido.

Feelings. Were. Stupid

So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.

The ones who know can't tell us, and the ones who tell us don't know.