Quotes About Wisdom

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked. Oh, I have heard of it, the monster said, putting its huge branch hands on its hips. But people usually know better than to speak it to me.

What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Smart boys make useless men.

No penséis que no habéis vivido lo bastante como para no tener una historia que contar.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

His mother shakes her head. "Everyone thinks they know what's best. Everyone." And then a voice behind him says, "Sometimes you need to find out that you don't, though.

I wonder if realizing you're not sure about stuff is what makes you a grown up?

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.

There's always choices, pup, but from what I hear, ye made the right one.

A little knowledge could be a large comfort.

Las historias son importantes -dijo el monstruo-. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. "The words of a sage," he says, "in the voice of a hick.

But guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Stop this, Conor O'Malley, the monster said, gently. This is why I came walking, to tell you this so that you may heal. You must listen. Conor swallowed again. "I'm listening." You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world keeps changing, whether I want it to or not.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive,' I say, spitting it out under my breath. 'That's actually when it's most important.

Las historias son importantes [...]. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere," the woman says. "Don't ye know that?