Quotes About Wisdom

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them.

It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, Benedict said, his tone amused. It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.

stupid is way more dangerous than actual evil, if only because there's so much more of it around.

He glowered at me. Then he said, "When the hell did you get deep?" "Through experience, wisdom I have earned," I said in Yoda's voice.

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life.

Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me.

The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.

But... my choices haven't always been very good, I said. Whose have? he asked.

Peace cannot be bought, Aleron," he murmured to LaFortier. "History teaches that lesson. I learned it. You should have, too." LaFortier

Death should be a learning experience, after all, or what's the point?

Later. Bad habit to get into," Thomas said. "Life's too short.

Nothing is truly safe in this world—and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy in the meantime.

If knowing how clueless I am is the measure of wisdom, I am freaking Solomon, Walter Cronkite, and Judge Judy all rolled into one.

Coz, he said. You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense.

You know how to use magic?" I asked. "I prefer calculus.

She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.

You don't gain knowledge without a little pain.

No, I really don't," I said. "That's the problem." "But you know that you do not know," Michael said. "Which is wise." I snorted. "If knowing how clueless I am is the measure of wisdom, I am freaking Solomon, Walter Cronkite, and Judge Judy all rolled into one." Sanya held up his hands with his fingers in a square, framing my face like a photographer. "Always thought you look more like a Judy.

That was silly, to think that they would not love each other—but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid. You are, too. That's okay. Just get a dog. Dogs can teach you all kinds of things about your heart.

make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.