Quotes About Wisdom

Wishing she could scratch, Morgase also wished that the other woman had not taken her so to heart about the dress not fitting very well. Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying .Morgase more than half-suspected that her itchy, ill-draped dress was punishment for that gown.

But I defied you!" "A Wise One cannot allow others to step upon her," Amys said. "If she comes into the shade of our sisterhood thinking like an apprentice, then she will never see herself as one of us.

Some of us have more honor than others, earned by wisdom, actions and experience." Melaine held up a finger. "But it is important—vital, even—that each Wise One be willing to defend her own well. If she believes that she is right, she cannot let herself be shoved aside, even by other Wise Ones, no matter how aged or wise.

A wise ruler, Elayne thought, knows when to speak and when not.

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was always a way for those who were cautious, while those fell who called caution cowardice.

He could not decide whether she was an utter feather head, or very clever.

Matar era tan fácil como morir, decían los Aiel; cualquier necio podía hacer lo uno o lo otro.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman," Bashere said to the air, "but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

Ucapan orang bodoh sama saja dengan debu Rand al'Thor

a man needed all of his wits dealing with a woman. Too often even that was not enough;

Se desejos fossem asas, as ovelhas voariam . Era o que a Senhora Luhhan sempre dizia.

The best way to keep a secret is to tell no one

that you should believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.

Yet to achieve greatly, a man must believe something. Belief and knowledge pave the road to greatness. Knowledge is perhaps the most valuable of all. We all seek the coin of knowledge.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.

I'm an old man," Thom said suddenly, "and sometimes I imagine I see things that can't be, but luckily, I always forget them.

Robert Jordan

most of the time he simply inquired what the questioner thought was a good solution and told him to do that. It was seldom he really had to come up with an answer; people knew what to do, they just had this fool notion they had to ask him.

My mother, she said firmly, always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

One might have thought that the years would also have taught her patience, but it had done the opposite. The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn't have many years left. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Aes Sedai believed a great many things to be true, and some of them actually were.

You must learn there is a time to speak all of the truth, and a time to govern your tongue. The least of the lessons you must learn, but important, if you mean to live long enough to wear the shawl of a full sister.