Quotes About Wisdom

How will I know when I've learned it, since I don't know it now?" he asks. The question sounds like a riddle. "Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one," I answer finally.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

We all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

Because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.

If you want my advice," he says slowly, "love doesn't grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least.

We may not die from age, but we grow weary with it.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Perhaps it is Oak who is the fool, who caught a wolf and thought that by putting it in a gown and speaking to it as though it were a girl, it would become one.

Cardan's eyebrows rise, but he has all the appearance of blissful unconcern. "My lady, you flatter me. I had no idea you were interested." Her gaze is unflinching as she passes her gift to one of Cardan's personal guard. "May you grow into the wisdom of your counselors." "The fervent prayer of many," he says.

Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything.

Wisdom is for the meek," he returns. "And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as wise as you are, you still married Locke. Of course, perhaps you are wiser than even that—perhaps you're so wise you made yourself a widow, too.

A sharp tongue is no match for a sharp tooth.

Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.

It is my belief that books are living things.

Knowledge and action are one and the same.

He knew about cures and poultices and the medicinal value of kisses.

What does that mean?" The Thistlewitch smiled. "Time will tell. It always does.

Everything's better when you say it in Latin.

I had a tutor who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was—but now I think he was also right.

I was a fool", I say, because i might as well admit it. " I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush

Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary

Given what we saw yesterday, I must admit you were right to suggest we circle around this stretch of woods," Oak says, staring into the trees and frowning. Tiernan gives a half smile. "I congratulate you on this wise decision.

Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes.

It's important that we learn the lessons our mother didn't.