Wisdom Quotes

"I need to stay calm and think."

"I need to be practical."

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, I am capable of loving him."

"All this time, I've been thinking like a military commander. But I should have been thinking like a human being."

"I learned to play the game. But I forgot how to be a person."

"The only way to win is to understand your opponent completely."

"I learned that the greatest strategy is understanding. The greatest weapon is empathy."

"The chances of finding out what's really going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied"

"The fact that we live in a universe of extreme dimensional improbability makes it very hard to surprise us"

"The answer is in your soul, you know"

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day"

"What you have to do is calm down and think"

"A man who doesn't know how to hide his feelings is a fool"

"Men are men, but I never knew what women were until I came to Winter"

"I learned that Gethenians were not like other people, and other people were not like Gethenians"

"To understand Gethen, one must become cold"

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

"The sleeper has awakened"

"Paul saw the trap then, the obligation to succeed"

"A person is smart. People are dumb"

"Prophecy is a double-edged sword"

"Every problem has a solution if you think about it long enough."

"Adaptation is key to survival."

"Every problem so far has had a solution I could understand and work through."

"Mistakes happen when you rush."

"To oppose something is to maintain it"

"All things are unequal in nature"

"I drink and I know things."

"All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards need be dwarfs."

"Just science the sh*t out of problems"