Quotes About Wisdom

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Strong on desire but short on smarts, these

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Often it's easier to make a decision when you don't know as much, because then you can't overthink. If you know too much, it can freeze you. The whole deal looks like a minefield.

How much do you know about Shakespeare?'' I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, ''Not as much as he knows about me''. Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.

Alle waarheid deed pijn, maar wel steeds meer, elk jaar een beetje meer.

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Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?

Grace, combined with insight and choice, is the means of change."32

As much as God loves his children, it is misplaced faith that asks him to prevent all pain in this life, especially the pain we created for ourselves. When we ask God to remove the natural consequences of our own behavior, we set ourselves up for disappointment and frustration. As a wise friend once said, "It is foolish to think you can sow your wild oats on Saturday and pray for crop failure on Sunday.

Not long ago, when I was being interviewed on a television show, the host commented, "Art, you've had an unusual amount of success for such a young age. What would you attribute it to?" "I've had an unusual amount of failure," I said.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

Kids do say the darndest things

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

It's not necessarily that we were wrong then and right now. It's just that our knowledge is constantly growing, and along the way we sometimes have to unlearn what we thought was true.

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