Quotes About Wisdom

Grasp the subject; the words will follow.

A clever learns more from fool than fools learn from the wise.

POOR Catullus, 'tis time you should cease your folly, and account as lost what you see is lost.

CVIII [...] Se vòi d'Amor o d'altro bene stare, magistra sit tibi vita aliena, Disse Cato in su' versificare

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

I had little wish to recall the callow peddler who would turn over any dank stone in his quest for knowledge.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

He gave himself fully to the penitent life, fasting, praying, confessing his wickedness and execrating himself in public. He became a better man in the small matters of his days, an even better, wiser king in the great matters of state.

who they were, or how they worked. That's how I add my few grains to the sandbox of human knowledge. It's what I love best about what I do. And there were so many

It wasn't a good idea to speak without putting a deal of thought into it. Words could be snares. Less of them you laid out there, less likely they could trap you up.

You must school your mind and not let your fears be your master.

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

How could an unlearned youth such as White write with such wisdom and resignation, while I, brimful of philosophy and book learning, was unable to still my heart into patience?

As I set my foot upon the path leading to that little brown house, I felt like an impostor. Surely, I had no business here. This was the house of another man. A man I remembered. A person of moral certainty, and some measure of wisdom, whom many called courageous. How could I masquerade as such a one? For I was a fool, a coward, uncertain of everything.

But then again, I was not fifteen anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

can see what others cannot see, but sometimes I miss what is apparent to the dimmest simpleton.

I suppose the answer was that if something can be known, I can't stand not knowing it.

Do not mind my rough old tongue. I have grown too bent with age for any further bowing.

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.