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Quotes About Wisdom

First learning, then proving I'd learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren't the same thing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. I
~ Octavia E. Butler
Read every day and learn from what you read.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God
~ Octavia E. Butler
To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I want you to be serious. I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I mean to learn everything I can while I can,' I said. 'If I find myself outside, maybe what I've learned will help me live long enough to learn more.
~ Octavia E. Butler
How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To shape God With wisdom and forethought, To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach.
~ Octavia E. Butler
God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace
~ Octavia E. Butler
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To shape God With wisdom and forethought, To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach. FROM Memories of Other Worlds
~ Octavia E. Butler
Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
~ Octavia E. Butler
Até mesmo um pouco de ficção pode ser útil [...] se você não precisar dessas informações, elas não serão prejudiciais. Você só vai saber um pouco mais do que antes.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Even people who can't read are impressed by books.
~ Octavia E. Butler