Quotes About Wisdom

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

I've always been a voracious reader.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I have been a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

I get less secure every year.

I never anticipated seeing 40.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

You don't ask about what can be seen.

I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.