Quotes About Wisdom

We stumble into our graves knowing so well how to have done better.

If a man says death before dishonor he is either a fool or a liar because he doesn't know what death is. He isn't able to judge. He only knows about living. He doesn't know anything about dying. If he is a fool and believes in death before dishonor let him go ahead and die.

There's no word worth your life.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Ignorance breeds superstition.

Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.

Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again.

The older I grow, the more I understand what the burned woman meant. Things I was able to walk through unscathed in my youth would mark me for life or damage me beyond repair now. Things I once shrugged off without thought would now bring about my collapse. I was much more flexible in both mind and body as a youth. I could absorb the impact and roll with the punches.

Who would have thought you could see the future by reading a book about the past?

I equate true spiritual insight with wisdom, which is different from knowledge. Knowledge can be obtained through many sources: books, stories, songs, legends, myths, and, in modern times, computers and television programs. On the other hand, there's only one real source of wisdom—pain. Any experience that provides a person with wisdom will also usually provide them with a scar. The greater the pain, the greater the realization. Faith is spiritual rigor mortis.

Teachings not validated by personal experience are of little value.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

He laughs with wise, percolated mirth

We are here for knowledge. Our enemy is thoughtlessness. This is philosophy.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.

Give any man the power of a god, and you better hope he's got the wisdom and morals of a god to match. There's nothing feeble about my moral line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I mourn every man I lose and every sacrifice I make. One life or a billion, they're all lives.

The true purpose of mankind is to bear the torch of truth aloft and shine it, even into the darkest places.

Mankind has proven to be pathologically incapable of learning from its own mistakes. It blithely remembers the witness of history, but it does not apply the knowledge it gains.

I thought I had trained you well, Beta,' she said, 'but I see I must reinforce the most basic conditioning. Know yourself. Understand yourself. In this life, most answers lie within, or in plain view right in front of us. They can be seen with ease if you but take the time to look.

Only a fool ignores the advice of a brilliant man. Oy an idiot denies the good practice of an enemy.

Never argue with a gun-cutter, [...]

Gamora: History repeating itself? Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

Regard the books,' Sinderman said, 'Are there some I should read? Will you prepare a list for me?' (asked Loken) 'Read them all. Read them again. Swallow the learning and ideas of our predecessors whole, for it can only improve you as a man...