Quotes About Wisdom

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

It'd be really neat if I wasn't a Darwin Award winner.

The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.

I don't love the fact that gravity is winning as I get older, but there's also a calmness that comes with it, which I'm secretly enjoying.

When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.

The Neanderthals in Texas have one thing that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi don't have, and that's called common sense.

The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.

A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.

The world itself is already a great textbook.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.