Quotes About Wisdom

Powiadaj?, ?e wi?cej si? uczymy na b??dach ni? wtedy, gdy odnosimy sukcesy.

KÅ'opot w tym, ?e kiedy prze?yje siÄ™ coÅ› strasznego czy wielkiego, zostajÄ… i wracajÄ… najrozmaitsze uczucia, które czÅ'owiek przedtem odsuwaÅ' na bok.

Humans are like mice,' Balekin went on. 'Dead before they learn how to be canny.

My advice," says Val Moren, "is tgat you learn to juggle better than I did, seneschal.

I knew what he was, I try to tell myself. I saw the blood crusted on his red cap. If I let myself forget, then more fool me

Don't listen to him.' He shakes his head with an exasperated look at his father. 'He's full of bad old-guy advice.' 'Just because I'm bad,' Madoc says with a grunt, 'doesn't mean the advice is.

All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don't trust people who want to share their food with you; don't eat their shiny red apples, nor their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don't break a promise. Be bold, be bold, but not too bold.

I keep my head down, as I probably should have done in the first place. And if I curse Cardan, then I have to curse myself, too, for being the fool who walked right into the trap he set for me.

That's what comes of hungering for something. You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.

Bez w?tpienia elfowie odrobili lekcj? ju? dawno temu. Nie musz? mami? ludzi, bo ludzie sami si? mami?.

It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes

Only Idiots aren't scared of things that are scary.

It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.

The more you learn, the less you know

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.

and she reflected that thirty-five was a lot harder than twenty-five had been. She was pretty sure she was getting smarter, but she figured she was falling apart at the same rate. By the time she was seventy, she ought to be both brilliant and too decrepit to make any use of her hard-won knowledge.

lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

She [Aphrodite] spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even of the wise.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

From his [Nestor's] tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.