Quotes About Wisdom

How does that goddamn cliché go? If I'd known then what I know now. Or maybe I should have heeded the opposite warning. Maybe I should have delved a little deeper into then back when I was wandering aimlessly around now.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned.

I have one rule about trouble. When it comes, I get out of the way.

Sin always takes you further than you meant to go and keeps you longer than you meant to stay.

I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing, fun courses.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

He remembered his father's old advice about keeping your friends close but your enemies closer.

When you reach my age, you learn that there are some fights you simply cannot win.

And you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.

He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

To know what is enough is to be immune from disgrace, To know when to stop is to be preserved from all perils, Only thus can you endure long.

It's all about what she knows and not who she is or where she comes from." As

Be careful," Serge admonished. "It's dumb out there.

The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.

Why read a book? If you read books you'd understand that question is like 'Why Breathe?

You're really smart.

People laugh at turtles, but they're existentially unambiguous.

Church kids took seats around him on the ground. "What else do you have?" "Well," said Serge, putting his left shoe back on. "There's Casey Kasem's American Top Forty. You know where the oldest lyrics ever to be heard on his show came from?" Heads shook. "Book of Ecclesiastes." He stood. "Adapted for the Byrds' mega-hit 'Turn! Turn! Turn!'" "Cool.

That's the whole key to life: Fuck the conventional wisdom on elves.

I fuck conventional wisdom's wife. Clipboard. Orange cones. You're a mall cop. Not a real cop. My personal code is never harm real cops, who risk their lives every day. The Thin Blue Line. You're an almost-cop, so harming you is a gray area. Thin Gray Line? Who knows? So I'll err on the side of decency and ask nice. Don't yell at any more kids before you're fired.

Use sunscreen; don't do heroin.' . . . If you could give the entire human race only one sentence of advice, I think you've just nailed it.

He's wrong, but I don't say anything. That's how you make a marriage last.

The lecture is never over. Education is not a preparation for life, my young friends, education is life. Now take what I've taught you and get out there and do some serious good.