“ The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. Anonymous
“ The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen. Ray Bradbury
“ Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble. H. Rider Haggard
“ Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead. George R.R. Martin
“ Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk. Michael Crichton
“ Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. Scott Westerfeld
“ Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to… Rick Riordan
“ Knowledge can beconveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it ispossible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but itcannot be expressed in words and taught. Hermann Hesse
“ It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we ar… Virginia Woolf
“ It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
“ I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted fro… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to rejoice, and a dark and gloomy one when sorrow weighs upon us. Irvin D. Yalom
“ Atticus makes gigantic mistakes at times. But there are also times like this one when he makes of his life a poem and achieves an apotheosis of sorts, when his years manifest as wisdom and he spies a… Kevin Hearne
