Quotes About Wisdom

The other face of Janus looks constantly to the past—though not to remember past hurts or bear grudges. That would only curb your power. Half of the game is learning how to forget those events in the past that eat away at you and cloud your reason.

A veces puedes lograr más no haciendo nada.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. —Albert Einstein

Elevate yourself above the battlefield.

Most men are ruled by the heart, not the head. Their plans are vague, and when they meet obstacles they improvise. But improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.

Hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time.

Por esto, cuando he conseguido una victoria, no vuelvo a emplear la misma táctica otra vez, sino que, respondiendo a las circunstancias, varío mis métodos hasta el infinito. —Sun-tzu (siglo IV a.C.).

analyze them in terms of the 48 laws of power, and you extract from them a lesson and an oath: "I shall never repeat such a mistake; I shall

The matter does not appear to appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then.

The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

There is a danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact

the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

History has always fascinated me. As Cicero himself once wrote: 'To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?' I quickly forgot the cold and could have spent all day happily unwinding that roll, poring over the events of more than sixty years before.

Well, well—be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.

My four golden principles are more important now than ever: take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible. "Before

shall never forget as long as I live the sensation of unrolling each of the eight books of Aristotle's Politics: tiny cylinders of minute Greek characters, the edges slightly damaged by damp from the caves in Asia Minor where they had been hidden for many years. It was like reaching back through time and touching the face of a god.

El arte de la vida consiste en saber enfrentarnos a los problemas a medida que surgen en lugar de amargarnos la existencia preocupándonos antes de que aparezcan.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

YOU CAN ALWAYS SPOT A FOOL, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election

that virtue is sufficient for happiness, that nothing except virtue is good, and that the emotions are not to be trusted—

take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible.