Quotes About Wisdom

You think you know the world," the old man said. "You're barely in it yet. You ain't seen what it gets like. How bad it can get. How cruel.

It should satisfy your concerns as to his judgement- to make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is. Agreed?

Handy, humans, Rowl thought. Clumsy, slow, and not always terribly bright, but they were very very strong, through sheer, inarguable mass. He now saw his father's wisdom in desiring to keep a few of them around the home tunnels. They could manage annoying problems that might prove awkward and time-consuming for cats.

but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid.

Murphy squeezed back. "Harry. You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.

Death comes, old man. Its hand is on your heart now. And your life has been spent in vain.

Immortality offers a significant advantage, but it is no substitute for intelligence. Remember that, young wizard.

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them

But hardly old. Went silver early, I'd say. That's always attractive in a man. It means he has both power enough to have responsibilities and conscience enough to worry over them.

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he said, and turned for the door.

You'll never value information that comes to you easily.

The last thing the twenty-first century wants to admit is that it might not know everything.

Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy.

We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women.

The fears of an old woman in a society that does not love or revere the wisdom of age as it once did.

I'm not sure it's possible to manipulate someone with candor and truth. I think you call that enlightenment.

you have to smile at idiots and children.

If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought.

One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.

Your advice is good. For a young man, you have good judgment." "You haven't seen my car.

A big assumption. And when you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.