Quotes About Wisdom

As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating.

Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?

It's intelligence that makes you unhappy.

But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to keep your mind on your line, as the saying went.

Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway

See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.

don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but the map.

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.

The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.

But always a giant, long before his body showed it.

As they say, a word to the wise is sufficient. And here I've gone and written five paragraphs.

Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes.

Nothing that is new is ever new twice. While things that are true are still true the next time; truer, in fact, because they have been tested, they have been tasted, and they are always ripe, always ready...

Remember, boy. From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From

It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

If you think that," said Bean, "you're an idiot." "Actually, I do think that, and I'm not an idiot.

There's never enough information...That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.

you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Qing-jao