Quotes About Wisdom

A man needs to know when to let things lie.

she dumped me. She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.

Neem wat je wil, zegt God, en betaal er voor (Spaans gezegde).

Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.

Kevin was a child. He never grew up. Thirty-seven years old and he still figured everything in the world was going to go the way he thought it should; it never hit him that the world might work its own way, whether that suited him or not.

Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life. He would have been a lot better off thick as a plank.

That kind of absolute faith is one of those things that, like virginity, can only be lost once

I've spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose—

My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That's all life is, on this earth anyway.

Danielle wasn't sure if she was patient and wise, or if she was a tragedy unfolding slowly, one hot summer day at a time.

When you know someone in the flesh, you know that person only in part," he told her. "A man's teachings are more important than his flesh form. Flesh is an illusion.

If we're not careful, the time may come when we can't help anyone—and I mean soon. My skin crawls when I think about how many people know about us, and they're not all going to come and say 'Please.' God has been with us so far, but we can't be naive. Even God says not to test Him by being foolish.

I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.' 'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.

Fuk "youth" ... how about a fountain of SMART ?

Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls!

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

The more you know, the less you understand.

God grant me the serenity to not fuck the things I cannot stand, courage to fuck the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.

Pessoa talked about there being no escape," the bear said. "He was right.

For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.