Quotes About Wisdom

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

You can do nothing with the One Power when emotion rules your mind.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know

It was always a mistake to choose a pillow-friend who did not wear the shawl. Especially if you were fool enough to let her take the lead.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.

It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.

Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only

Verin Sedai said that most mistakes made by rulers came from not knowing history; they acted in ignorance of the mistakes others had made before them.

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men. And women." Egwene

Believing because you think you know is dangerous.

Fools deserved whatever their foolishness brought.

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

If you do not learn from your losses, you will be ruled by them.

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

How can any man tell all that he knows, Great Lord," the little man said smoothly. "It would be only prattle, until it becomes useful.

That you think I have taught you much already only shows how little you knew to begin. You

Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always. Just

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

Non puoi sapere sempre tutto- disse Lan con calma- e parte di ciò che sai è sempre sbagliato. Forse perfino la parte più importante. Una porzione di saggezza sta nel rendersi conto di questo. Una porzione di coraggio sta nell'andare comunque avanti.

Perrin ergueu o machado para atirá-lo no lago, mas Elyas agarrou seu pulso. Você vai usá-lo, garoto, e, enquanto odiar usá-lo, vai usá-lo com mais sabedoria do que a maioria dos homens. Espere. Se algum dia você não o odiar mais, aí sim será hora de jogá-lo o mais longe que puder e correr para o outro lado .

No son espadas ni fuerza muscular lo que necesitamos ahora —discrepó Nynaeve—, sino inteligencia. Los hombres suelen pensar con el pelo que tienen en el pecho. —Se tocó el pecho con aire ausente, como si palpara algo debajo de la chaqueta—. La mayoría de ellos lo hacen.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

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