Quotes About Wisdom

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

If you're wiser it doesn't make you happier. One of the girls in one of your movies said something like, ' I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.

Been there, done that.

I have heard that people once spoke of making Judas Maccabaeus king, but he would have none of it. I think he was wise as well as strong. I think he may have been the wisest of all the Hasmoneans

but whoever heeds reproof acquires understanding.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...

Without pain, there would be no suffering. Without suffering, we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

When you get to a certain age, nothing matters. You only want to cling to your serenity and leave the dreaming and storming for those with steaming blood in their veins. Emotions are for the young; the elderly have no use for them.

Are we, as we age, I wonder, repaid for all our thoughtless gestures?

and is it not true that in our extreme youth we possess the capacity to see more clearly and absorb more intensely the beauty that lies all before us, and so much more so than in our later youth or in our adulthood, when we have been apprised of sin and its stain and our eyes have become dulled, and we cannot see with the same purity, or love so well?

Marcie, you don't need to read books. It's just a dumb habit for introverts.

Carmen hated the 'life is too short rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because life is too short not to, you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

It's by living that you live more.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. —Winston Churchill

a good mother doesn't just obey the wishes of her selfish heart. A good mother does what she believes is the best thing for her child. Sometimes they are the same. This time they are different.

I'm afraid of the quick judgements and mistakes that everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies

It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. Experience.

A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

Relief was a poor guide if ever there was one.

a person bound to the facts can never hope to best the rabble-rouser in the arena.