Quotes about wisdom

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know:

It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.

There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

“The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more.”

“The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful.”

“They do.”

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

If one could always choose the right question, then every answer could be as obvious.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

'They've had a long time to think,' Paran murmured. 'Sometimes, that's all there's needed. The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.'

If Diddy already knows what he does that's foolish and stupid, why can't he become wise? Act wisely. For, oh, Diddy has perceived his follies countless times. Is heartily ashamed of them, strenuously repudiates them. It's only that he doesn't understand. Not really. A hopeless, bumbling tourist in the somber labyrinth of his own consciousness.

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.