Wisdom Quotes

"Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the worm."

"A man who doesn't know how to die doesn't know how to live"

"One makes enemies of those one understands too well"

"Prejudice is the armor of the frightened"

"I drink and I know things"

"No one is ever truly happy in this world"

"The world is not kind to little girls"

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that moment I also love him."

"Every game has rules, but life does not."

"The ocean responds to our deepest fears and desires. It is a mirror we fear to look into."

"The ocean thinks in dimensions we cannot perceive. We are children trying to understand the mind of God."

"Every contact with the unknown forces us to question everything we believed about ourselves."

"There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

"I drink and I know things"

"The living deserve it more"

"I think like you do. We're not really very different, Mazer and I."

"Something's bound to go wrong"

"In the darkness of ignorance, we are all equal"

"The Ekumen seeks knowledge, not domination"

"Better to face problems now than later"

"Don't try to understand it"

"That's what I do. I drink and I know things."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time"

"The ability to see is not the same as the ability to act"

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they want to be loved."

"The weapon was not a starship or a beam weapon."

"Nothing comes without cost."

"How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? The answer is: you don't."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty"