Cricket Bell. I smiled into my phone. How did you get so wise?

{T}he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000....

But I don't know what the right thing to do is; I sometimes think I know too much, I've studied too much, learned too much, remembered too much. It all seems to average out, somehow; like dust that...

Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real...

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.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

. . . 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...