Quotes About Wisdom

You're pretty quick for an old guy," he said. "That's how I got to be an old guy

then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

Maybe of not having to say if I had known then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

How old are these

You can't be real-world smart and real-world dumb, all at the same time. You can't be rational and irrational. You can't deal with reality and simultaneously not deal with it.

Zeno spoke Greek, not Latin, and preferred passive resignation to reckless optimism.

Too many cooks spoil the broth, many hands make light work, great minds think alike, fools never differ.

old guys weren't there. I

You're pretty quick for an old guy," he said. "That's how I got to be an old guy," McGrath said back.

This is not rocket surgery.

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

Some old guy once said the meaning of life is that it ends. Which was inescapably true. No one lives forever.

Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?' Back

get something out of them.

I said, "I don't need no education.

one of his mother's favorite expressions started to echo in his head: When you're in a hole, stop digging.

He was no longer young, and not yet old. Mentally and physically he was up there on a broad plateau of common sense and maturity and peak capability. He was not behind schedule. He was not speeding. He was not drunk. He

The only fights you truly win are the ones you don't have.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

So I cast my lot with him—not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'46  Ã¢â'¬â€and proved it.

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

said Oswald Chambers, "is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.