Peter V. Brett Quotes

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

Peter V. Brett

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• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Wisdom
  • Clever

• Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • Wisdom

• The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Work
  • God
  • Fun

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • May
  • Running
  • Wisdom

• Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • America
  • Hope
  • Wisdom

• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Wisdom

• All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Wisdom
  • Grief

• Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

  

  John McCain
  • Great
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

  

  Umar
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • inspirational

• My personal happiness is much more important than my career, my primary aim is to have a happy home life. Those great ladies the silver screen have wanted what I've been able to get, but they've not been able to give up enough to get it.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Up
  • Control
  • Person

• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • May
  • Experience
  • Past

• My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Honest
  • Writer

• There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

  

  Peter V. Brett
  • Wisdom
  • Battle
  • Prudence