Quotes About Wisdom

I'll show you how, Peter said. Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

There is very seldom any true secret.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

This wood," Yam told him, "is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Do you wish to go to an earlier time and start from there?" "Would I understand more if I did?" Hume asked. "You might," said Yam. "Both of us might." "Then it's worth a try," Hume agreed. They went together down the left-hand fork.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories.

Perhaps she was a little mad, but then old women often were.

You're still here, he said. Is something the matter? Sophie sniffed. I'm old, she began. But it was just as the Witch had said and the fire demon had guessed. Michael said cheerfully, Well, it comes to us all in time. Would you like some breakfast?

Is something the matter?" Sophie sniffed. "I'm old.

Sophie got herself to the mirror, and found that she had to hobble. The face in the mirror was quite calm, because it was what she expected to see. It was the face of a gaunt old woman, withered and brownish, surrounded by wispy white hair. Her own eyes, yellow and watery, stared out at her, looking rather tragic. Don't worry, old thing, Sophie said to the face. You look quite healthy. Besides, this is much more like you really are.

Sophie lut: « Va prendre l'étoile tombée Et fais enfanter la mandragore, cette racine pure. Dis-moi où sont donc les années écoulées Ou qui du diable le sabot fend. Apprends-moi à entendre des sirènes le chant Ou à retenir de l'envie les morsures Et trouve céans Quel bon vent Permet à l'esprit honnête d'aller de l'avant. Décide de ce qu'il en est Et le second couplet toi-mémé écriras. »

The search of reason ends at the shore of the known

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.

The spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he. There is no other wisdom, and no other hope for us but that we grow wise. -attributed to Surak

It was an annoying realization, but it was the truth; and as such, she wouldn't have given it up for anything.

I will meet idiots today, went one version of her after-waking meditation, and one of them will probably be me. Iau Hau'hai, Queen of Life and of Making Things Work, grant me of Your courtesy the courage to shred that idiot's ears when I meet her, and then get on with work…for being right is nothing next to having things be right…

I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

pasaul? ir p?r?k daudz gr?matu, lai t?s izlas?tu vienas dz?ves laik?; kaut kur ir j?novelk sv?tra.

One of the best ways of avoiding his torments was to be ignorant about something and let him put you straight.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.