Quotes About Wisdom

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

I don't believe in trading in your future for a little extra power in the present.

Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.

Didn't you say that the key is to live in the moment?" Metelon asked. "That's the excuse people use for foolish behavior.

Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?" The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun. "Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time

Don't pick a fight you can't win.

He'd always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.

He'd serve himself, waiting and watching until he could take advantage. He wouldn't play the fool anymore.

La esperanza es una cosa peligrosa, pensó Raisa. Una vez encendida es difícil de apagar. Vuelve a las personas sabias en necios.

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