Quotes About Wisdom

Jack Weatherford

In keeping with his own sober manner and simple style of living, Genghis Khan warned them against the pursuit of a "colorful" life with material frivolities and wasteful pleasures. "It will be easy," he explained, "to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women." In that case, "you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

prudent, steadfast, and courageous.

Jack Weatherford

The democracy of the intellect comes from the printed book…

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

power is the by-product of understanding. So the Greeks said that Orpheus played the lyre with such sympathy that wild beasts were tamed by the hand on the strings. They did not suggest that he got this gift by setting out to be a lion tamer.

Knowledge … is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Garner knowledge, by any means possible

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

The wise man, the dragon rumbled, does not play games with dragons.

All knowledge is worth having

Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way," I said slowly, thinking. "That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will.

C'è perspicacia nella follia.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

That which yields, is not always weak. Choose your victories wisely.

Let him be a boy while he may. It is too soon for him to wrestle with mortality.

Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.

Knowledge is never wasted.

It's not wise to trust a poet with one's secrets, but it's not wise to cross them, either

There are worse things in the world than heartbreak. Finding that out is a rite of passage.