Quotes About Wisdom

She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. You'll annoy the pig and lose your voice.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

Knowledge is currency here....

There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies.

If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school

Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance.

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled. Not for a minute.

Never trust a ruminant.

L'ho lasciata fare. Non ho detto che sarebbe andato tutto bene. Non ho fatto lo sforzo di consolarla. A volte è meglio lasciare le cose come sono, lasciare che il dolore faccia il suo corso.

Bet mano pasaulis yra ?ia. Galb?t jis ir mažas, ta?iau net šimt? met? gyvendamas aš neišsemsiu visos jo begalin?s ?vairov?s.

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

La razón es el perfecto equilibrio de todas las facultades; fuera de ella, todo es insania, insania y nada más que insania.

A razão é o perfeito equilíbrio de todas as faculdades; fora daí insânia, insânia e só insânia.

Leitor ignaro, se não guardas as cartas da juventude, não conhecerás um dia a filosofia das folhas velhas, não gostarás o prazer de ver-te, ao longe, na penumbra, com um chapéu de três bicos, botas de sete léguas e longas barbas assírias, a bailar ao som de uma gaita anacreôntica. Guarda as tuas cartas da juventude!

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

I don't know. But I do know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want forever , not right now . I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.