Quotes About Wisdom

Colmillo Blanco aprendió una cosa pronto: que el dios ladrón era generalmente cobarde y huía fácilmente de los ruido alarmantes.

Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.

The moment that he knew, he ceased to know.

Mi ha spiegato che quando s'increspava le sopracciglia e la fronte, voleva dire che c'erano delle grinze nel mio cervello ed è brutto avere grinze nei propri pensieri.

You must come to read the face of life with understanding.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

vard???n hükümler, okuduÄŸun kitaplarla paraleldir mutlaka.

And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.

Parables don't lie, but liars will parable."—Lip-King.

Drink deep the cup of life; Take its dark wine into your soul, For it passes round the table only once.

there is no security in ignorance.

T'sain shrugged. "I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life.

Two hours of loose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.

This," said Iucounu, "is my friend Firx, from the star Achernar, who is far wiser than he seems. Firx is annoyed at being separated from his comrade with whom he shares a vat in my workroom. He will assist you in the expeditious discharge of your duties." Iucounu stepped close, deftly thrust the creature against Cugel's abdomen. It merged into his viscera, took up a vigilant post clasped around Cugel's liver.

I was a precocious child, and I resolved to read everything I could get my hands on, in order to encapsulate the whole of human knowledge. At the time the project seemed less impractical than it does today. I did as best I could and by the time I was ten or elven had read what I suspect was equivalent to a college education.

Informing you is a pleasure, since you are quick to learn.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought

Experience, my dear lady, has taught me a sad truth: time flows in one direction only! As the days pass none of us grows younger. Sometimes we postpone glorious schemes only to discover in the end that they never have materialized! Procrastination is the thief of life!

But knowledge creates a craving for further knowledge. Where is the harm in knowledge?

There is too much knowledge already in the world; we use facts as crutches, logic is deceit. I know a single system of communication: the declaiming of poetry.

keeping with the laconic Mongol traditions, he warned his sons not to talk too much. Only say what needs to be said. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others

She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.

importance of constant learning as the key to being a successful ruler.

Jack Weatherford