Quotes About Wisdom

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

The mistakes we make in our youth, she said solemnly, we pay for with the rest of our lives.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore. I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Call me the voice of ex­pe­ri­ence.

These old people. These human ruins.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

We thought all this teach­ing was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.

Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.

As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

The problem with being talented and gifted is sometimes you get too smart. My uncle Henry says the importance of eating a good breakfast is because your brain is still growing. But nobody talks about how, sometimes, your brain can get just too big.