Quotes About Wisdom

Quem come do fruto do conhecimento é sempre expulso de algum paraíso.

As the nineteenth-century philosopher Henry David Thoreau put it, "All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

All I am is a skinful of old bones on horseback.

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.

To err is human. (Errare Humanum Est)

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was.

You know something,Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.

It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.

In his time since Sarnak, Froi had come to learn as much about the power of silence as the power of words.

A wise man has tolerance for such people. A wise man walks away or finds a means of changing the way they think.

To be that smart means you know all the answers and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming

line deepening her already

just cus your cat had kittens in the oven don't make em biscuits

Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.

I know you mean well, but you have to remember that things don't always work out like they do in your storybooks.

But even the bad stuff in life can teach you something, shape you.

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

People never think things that are true are funny.

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.

a person can't un-know the truth.

What only a wise person realized was that the strongest of women sometimes simply needed to have someone else make the decisions for them behind closed doors. Not always. Not every day. Sometimes.