Quotes About Wisdom

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

Blinded following the Blindfolded

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.

Remember what you learned, years ago: You're never sorry you brought a book.

It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

Deciding on a safe answer to a question is like deciding on a safe ingredient in a sandwich, because if you make the wrong decisions you may find that something horrible is coming out of your mouth.

Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind.