Paulo Coelho Quotes

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Valor by itself may be respected but without wisdom and calculation it does not lead anywhere.

Fear is not the best advisor.

There is great strength in acting boldly but there is also great strength in not acting if the time is not right.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.