Quotes About Wisdom

Orson Scott Card

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.

La ignorancia y la mentira no pueden salvar a nadie. El conocimiento lo hace.

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6).

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Life is too short to learn German

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Only the shallow know themselves

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.