Quotes About Wisdom

Para parecer inteligente tienes que saber cerrar la boca cuando conviene.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

Creo que las cosas siempre van mal de un modo u otro -declaró-. Quizá sea que solo nosotros, los mayores, nos damos cuenta.

Todos los hombres sabios temen tres cosas: la tormenta en el margo, la noche sin luna y la ira de un hombre apacible.

As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

No fue solo culpa mía —puntualicé. —No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

Bast spoke up. "May I ask a question, Reshi?" Kote smiled gently. "Always, Bast." "A troublesome question?" "Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.

El deseo de conocimiento forma al hombre

La cautela es siempre la herramienta de la sabiduría.

She smiled and was suddenly young again. "How does it feel to know where you are going?

She knew. She should have moved more gently with the world. She knew the way of things. She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and wine . . . .

La sabiduría excluye la audacia... Por eso los buhos no son buenos héroes.

Los hechos pequeños nos llevan al gran conocimiento -recitó-. De igual modo, los nombres pequeños nos llevan a los grandes nombres.

Do you know many stories?" He smiled, and the network of lines that crossed his face turned to make themselves part of that smile. "I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Generalmente, el miedo proviene de la ignorancia.

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 answer

A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.

The answer is that each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things. It is the part of us that dreams. It remembers everything. It gives us intuition. Your waking mind does not understand the nature of names. Your sleeping mind does. It already knows many things that your waking mind does not.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness.

a lettuce that thinks it is a lettuce." "It's a clever lettuce then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it was a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

No te creas todas las historias que te cuenten, Bast. Las historias mienten.

Because you are too eager to be properly patient," he said flippantly. "You're too proud to listen properly. And you're too clever by half. That's the worst of it.

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

And she was sorry. She knew better. Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.