Quotes About Wisdom

I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know.

Though a Kickapoo, the man had respect for the old ways. He behaved like the old ones behaved; the old ones, too, would go to any lengths to learn some useful fact about the animals or the birds. They would figure that someone might need to know those facts; they themselves might not need to, but their children might, or their grandchildren might.

If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. Pea Eye was a prime example. Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -H. Poincare

One must travel all the way to the center. To know and hate evil is one path to knowing good.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. She'd

You know the truth, now. You know that reason alone is not enough. You must ask for grace . .

He was sure now. Teela Brown had never been hurt; had never learned caution; did not understand fear. Her first pain would come as a horrifying surprise. It might destroy her entirely. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. She'd be hurt over Louis Wu's dead body.

You might find it helpful to read the works of Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. The hallmark of a truly great philosopher is that he never writes books on philosophy, and those two are the best. Anderson for how to get along with people who are conspicuously wrong, and Heinlein for when not to.

have precious little free will, he was saying. We're too intelligent not to see the right answers.

I'd read a great many books, even Dharma books, but I was making this itch into one of the worst catastrophes in human history.

Basically, though, there is just one teaching—the Four Noble Truths—and all of the Buddha's other teachings fit within that framework: there is suffering; there is a cause for that suffering; there is an end to it, and there is a means to that end.

Taking a lifetime to grow up.

was a phrase my mother inherited from her mother. I had heard Grandma Anglund use it for occasions ranging from a scraped knee (mine) to a family burned out of its farm.

Deputy sheriff." He looked down at his shirt as though he expected to see his badge there. "Which I owe to your granddad and your dad. You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away. Took me a while to learn that.

Miss Josette was an African-American woman, probably in her late seventies, but who could easily pass for early sixties. She had intelligent, almond-shaped eyes, smooth skin the color of rich mahogany

famous Japanese adage that is both edifying and rippingly depictive," said Drayton. "Carp eyes coming, fish eyes going . . ." "Soon will be the wind in the pines

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

Be careful what you give up.

It basically means, we don't know shit about anything

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier." "And what did he say to do about that?" "Find other people. You know, for starters.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

we don't know shit about anything

Cuando se habla de comer, hecho por demás importante, sólo los necios o los enfermos no le dan el interés que merece.