Quotes About Wisdom

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

I've been married three times. I married the girl next door when I was 22, and I wasn't a good husband, but I wasn't a good anything then. Nowadays, I'm much kinder.

Fools are without number.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I went out with a 40-year-old when I was 19, and since then, I don't really think much about numbers meaning anything. But I do feel like maybe I've neglected to work on developing emotionally and taking care of myself.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

My mother was an orthopedic nurse for 20 years, and she forbade all of us children to ever get on a motorcycle, and we listened.

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

There are many things that you just observe while watching Steyn. Just seeing him bowl is a great learning in itself.

I don't watch a lot of movies. I watch theatre, read books, and observe life.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

I do think observing is important in learning.

I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.

You can learn so much just by observing.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.