. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon...
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
The key to wisdom is doubt!
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
When they expect you to give up, that's when you should put your foot down and double speed.
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...
Philosophers have often held disputeAs to the seat of thought in man and bruteFor that the power of thought attends the latterMy friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,And spite of dogmas...
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?It is an act too often neglected, said the fox. It means to establish ties. To establish ties? Just that, said the fox. To me, you are still...
one should never assume anything
It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.
A person must be wise in moderation, but not excessive wisdom so that he does not know his amount in advance
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...