Quotes About Wisdom

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.

Ill wishing is a curse on the woman who does it, as well as the one who receives it. When you put such words out in the world, they can overshoot-like an arrow. A curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. I would hope that you never curse at all. Bless you my daughter, and may you remain pure in heart and get your desires.

it is easier to unleash evil than call it back again. Any fool can blow up a wind, but who can know where it will blow or when it will stop?

We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

If He were not God, then one would think it very badly planned.

The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.

Viverei como uma mulher apaixonada e inteligente e levarei a minha paixão e a minha inteligência para tudo o que fizer.

She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be "that poor Mrs. Fool" until the day he dies.

He shrugged. "Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

Child, you cannot change a king, you can only make him laugh.

Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man's temper the very centre of our lives

Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.

Choosing is Aging.

common sense is as rare as genius,—is the basis of genius, and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;—

epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.

Est-il indispensable d'être cultivé quand il suffit de fermer sa gueule pour briller en société

Et puis quoi, qu'importe la culture ? Quand il a écrit Hamlet, Molière avait-il lu Rostand ? Non.

La culture, c'est comme la confiture, moins on en a, plus on l'étale.

Il vaut mieux se taire et passer pour un con plutôt que de parler et de ne laisser aucun doute sur le sujet.