Wisdom Quote by Jim Butcher — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”

“Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.”

“We are not going to die.”

“She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles.”

“Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!”

“If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you’ve left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.”

“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.”

“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“When you try to catch the wind, your hand becomes a box. When you open your hand, the wind stays.”

“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”