Quotes About Wisdom

Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world. —

No man has wit enough to reason with a fool, Zin.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

War is intellect.

You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.

It … It … It is what it is!

What is the meaning of a deluded life?

All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.

If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

When speaking to or about another person, ask yourself if what you are about to say will meet their need: Necessary – Is it necessary to say this? Encourage – Will this encourage? Will it make them feel better? Edify – Will it edify? Will it build them up and make them stronger as a result of what you would say? Dignify – Will it dignify that person? That's the way Jesus treated other people; he gave them a sense of dignity. Criticism

Other world! There is no other world! Here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Take her home. And- Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times, Myrnin said, much too sharply. I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.

I'm learning all the time. Well, you're a scholar.

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom. A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.

Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.

I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

Love well, if not wisely.

Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.

With the right books, we can change everything.

Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.