Quotes About Wisdom

A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.

remember this. We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. Hold on to your heart, and the Aes Sedai cannot harm what is really you, your heart. They are not nearly so far above us as we believed. May you always find water and shade, Egwene. And always remember your heart.

Ladies! A woman is a woman, Rand al'Thor. Unless she is a Wise One," she

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." —The Eye of the World

Only there was so much to learn, and it sometimes seemed a lifetime would be too short to learn it. Her

A trap isn't really a trap if you know it's there," he said absently, bending the end of one of the severed wires a little to line up better with its mate. "If you know it's there, maybe you can see a way to walk in so it isn't a trap at all.

And only a fool jumps

The general who leads in the front of battle is a fool.

As a novice, she understood things that most Aes Sedai had never learned -- or had forgotten the moment they took the shawl. How to be humble when necessary, how to take a punishment, how to know when you needed to learn rather than pretend you already knew.

A baffled look passed between Nynaeve and Elayne. What was his point? Everyone knew that a man did not achieve his proper wits, such as they were, until ten years later than a woman.

incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.

A Wise One must be in control of her emotions, not they in control of her.

Why did people always think you did not know as much as they? The world was full of fools!

that kings—and queens—can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.

He has never been a fool except for a pair of eyes or a pretty ankle, the gray-haired woman said, and that is a failing of every man.

Care and a long life go together, blacksmith

I understand, Egwene thought. I didn't realize what the Aiel did. I assumed that I just had to be harder, and that was what would teach me to laugh at pain. But it's not hardness at all. It's not strength that makes me laugh. It's understanding.

They must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them.

Know a little about a lot.

Rich dad thought it best to go broke before 30. You still have time to recover.

El conocimiento es el nuevo dinero.

He pasado la mayor parte de mi vida tratando de olvidar cosas que resultaron no ser verdad.

Financial education is more powerful than money

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth.