Wisdom

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Guard your heart against anger.

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.

The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep.

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Think before you speak, unless it's urgent.

It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.