Quotes About Wisdom

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.

Leave us do the thinking sweetheart. It takes equipment.

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.

A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets.

The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.

A half smart guy, she said with a tired sniff. That's all I ever draw. Never once a guy that's smart all the way around the course. Never once.

I was way past the age when it's fun to swear at people you can't hurt.

You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting)

I need not add that a man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets.

You will have to make decisions far worse. You are going to have to learn to think before you act, but never to regret your decisions, right or wrong. Otherwise, you will slowly begin to not make decisions at all.

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.

You must define yourself, for no one else has the wisdom to do it for you.

One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper.

Still, few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.

it is almost impossible in the heat of the moment to understand long-term consequences.

We'll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we've become so much more than we dreamed.

few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.' Tomas

Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.

you are not like others. You are of neither the Lesser nor the Greater Path. You are a sorcerer, one who knows there are no paths, only magic. And magic may be limited only by the limits of one's gifts.' Tomas

The ways of the heart are complex." He looked out at the ocean again. "The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man's undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you.

You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.