Quotes About Wisdom

But the Speaker for the Dead, the one who wrote this book, he's the wisest man who lived in the age of flight among the stars. While Ender was a murderer, he killed a whole people, a beautiful race of ramen that could have taught us everything—' 'Both human, though,' whispered the Speaker.

He always knew the answer, even when she thought he wasn't paying attention.

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.

I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert.

Los sabios no son sabios porque no cometan errores. Son sabios porque corrigen sus errores en cuanto los reconocen.

We are wise to be cautious, but I suggest we prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Individually, human beings are all dolts.>

Nobody knows more than can be learned in a single lifetime

Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.

Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.

The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.

God made us with death inside, and also with intelligence. We have our seventy years or so, perhaps ninety, with care in the mountains of Georgia, a hundred and thirty is not unheard of, though I personally believe they are all liars. They would claim to be immortal if they thought they could get away with it. We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time.

there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?

Ambition leads you to great risk. But ambition never leads you to certain destruction." "Unless you're a fool.

with than the person who actually lived.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can't actually conceive of needing any.

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

Cuando tienes la sabiduría que otra persona sabe que necesita, ofrécela libremente. Pero cuando la otra persona no sepa todavía que necesita tu sabiduría, guárdatela para ti. La comida sólo parece atractiva a un hombre hambriento.

Children never do understand their own childishness.

And that, said Bean, is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared