Quotes About Wisdom

His face and his Noise are as blank as I remember but the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

Cumplir años es envejecer, crecer es otra cosa.

Cumplir años es envejecer, crecer es otra cosa. Es darse cuenta de que la vida no es lo que esperas. No es justa, ni predecible, ni controlable. Es comprobar que a veces se gana y otras se pierde. Y sobre todo, que a veces se gana y se pierde al mismo tiempo. Crecer es aceptar la incertidumbre.

Nevertheless, continued the monster, it was a kingdom, small but happy, for the king was a just king, a man whose wisdom was born out of hardship.

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," Hildy says,

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

Yes,' said Jasper, flatly, 'and it was very illuminating. It is, perhaps, less illuminating now.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Richard was a smart guy, with lousy judgment.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Only a fool worries over what he can't control.

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn.

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that... Well, then she didn't rightly know what happened next. But she hoped that after that the world would start to run itself a bit, like a gear-watch proper fit and kissed wit oil. That was what she hoped would happen.

No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.