Quotes About Wisdom

It's the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce'Nedra," she said, "and it's usually wrong.

You'd think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.

In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.

Wise are you, indeed," the fox said, "to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

The wisdom of the Gods is such that their instruction is concealed within stories. Our minds delight in the stories, and the messages of the Gods are implanted thus. All unaware, we are instructed even as we are entertained.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light, he replied philosophically.

You'd think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

A wise king does not garner all wit, instead he also allows his cunselors to be wise.

Selon Chondler, conclut-il, il n'existe qu'une seule vertu : la modération. Encore ne faut-il pas la pratiquer avec excès.

the wisest writers, those who become most popular, learn to draw upon art and literature in order to create works that speak to audiences more strongly, more deeply, and appeal to a wider network of readers.

Capital T-truth is about life before death.

This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?' and swims away; and the three young fish watch him swim away and look at each other and go, 'What the fuck is water?' and swim away.

Try to let what is unfair teach you…what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher…you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?

Clichés earned their status as clichés because they're so obviously true

Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

Everybody who really wants to knows what's true. Most people just don't want to. It means listening from deep inside. Most people just don't want to. But the special people listen. You can hear what's true, inside. Listen.