Quotes About Wisdom

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

I answer questions the best I can.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

I already accepted that I can't jump no more. I'm not as fast as I used to be. I accepted that already. That's where you become more smart, make that first step or two before that quick player can get there. I gotta make this jump shot, so I'll give a pump fake because I know that he can jump higher than me.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.