Quotes About Wisdom

Todos procuram. Os afortunados encontram. (...) Os sensatos aceitam.

Know thyself. —Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle CHAPTER ELEVEN She lay flat on her back on thick grass under a brilliantly blue sky.

Books are the world.

except what you've got behind locked doors in there. But I figure you wouldn't have brought it up if you hadn't had some level of want in there yourself." She turned back, remained standing across the counter from him. "It was probably unwise for you to come here when you're still a little angry and most

What are you, twelve?" "The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man." "Irish philosophy?" Sasha responded to it by shoving the heel of her hand through the water, and sending it into his face.

Sou assim velho porque tive o prazer de viver muito.

Um inimigo astuto escolhe a altura e o campo. Quanto mais ela gostar de ti, mais forte é o golpe. Afinal de contas, o caminho mais seguro até à alma passa pelo coração.

anything worth anything can be found in books

When you get older, you come to trust in time. Not that I'm meaning you sit idle and let it pass.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself.

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her, thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself. ---Nora Roberts Second Nature

It goes that youth is wasted on the young, but I'm of a mind that the young waste youth.

Everything that is can't be understood. Everything that's understood can't be explained.

People are stupid more than half the time.

Los prejuicios y el miedo nunca han destacado por su clarividencia

Only the foolish waste their wishes.

you can't fix stupid.' It may be true. But ignorance can be educated.

Pretty thing, he thought, though he'd be wise to ignore that. Pretty and sunny and a bloody faerie goddess astride a horse.

Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.

The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us. Maybe we can't handle the truth. In

Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true (Ps. 119:142). Yet