Quotes About Wisdom

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true.

I hope you will choose better ahead. You have always trusted too easily.

But Athena had no babe, and she never would. Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

A word of power." "Will you teach it to me?" "Sorcery cannot be taught. You find it yourself, or you do not.

Si uno te acechara, debes darle algo que desee más que a ti»,

She is constant. Constant in all things. Even wise men go astray sometimes, but never her. She is a fixed star, a true-made bow[...] Nothing she says has a single meaning, nor a single intention, yet she is steady. She knows herself.

Quirón había dicho en una ocasión que las naciones eran el invento más estúpido de los mortales.

You are wise,' he said. 'If it is so,' I said, 'it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.

His face was smile-lined

I would like you to teach me." Chiron's stern face softened. "That is why you have been sent here. So that I may teach you what I know.

Einen perfekt austarierten Bogen hatte Odysseus sie genannt. Einen Fixstern. Eine Frau, die sich selbst genau kennt.

They have wrinkles, but no wisdom. I took them to war before they could do any of those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite.

I suppose that is true. You said that he shaped kingdoms, but he also shaped the thoughts of men. Before him, all the heroes were Heracles and Jason. Now children will play at voyaging, conquering hostile lands with wits and words.

Most men, in my experience, are fools.

The gray-eyed maiden has ever been kind to me," Odysseus said, almost apologetically. "She knows why I am here; she blesses and guards my purpose.

Dü?man?n? dinleme, demi?ti Odysseus bir keresinde bana. Onlara bak.Gördüklerin her ?eyi anlatacakt?r.

So do I," said Achilles. "I have heard that you taught Heracles and Jason, thick-fingered though they were. Is it true?

You are a fool," she said. "Get down. Your halfwit death will not save him.

She is also young and has the prejudices of her kind. I am older and flatter myself that I can read a man more clearly. I have no objection to Patroclus as your companion.

Es posible domesticar a una serpiente para que coma de tu mano, pero nadie le va a quitar nunca el gusto por morder.

There was a long silence, and I almost thought he had not heard me. At last, he said: "Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.

Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring fire down on your head.

But you were the one who really taught him healing," Achilles said. "I was." "You do not mind that the snake gets all the credit?" Chiron's teeth showed through his dark beard. A smile. "No, Achilles, I do not mind.