Quotes About Wisdom

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense. He cannot stay with me for 12 rounds. He's not tough enough.

The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Living life as normally as possible gives you a richer well of experiences to draw from.

When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always writing stuff down, taking notes.

A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

Truth is an illusory notion.

I'm a big believer in the notion that to know where you are going, you have to know where everything has been.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.