Quotes About Wisdom

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.

John Wooden's books are great.

Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

A word to the wise is enough.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Every creature is a word of God.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.