Quotes About Wisdom

A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You

Inside of us, but out of awareness, is the truth that "I already know everything I need to know.

You wouldn't use a hammer to open a can of soup. You can't use the intellect to apprehend spiritual reality.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.

never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk near a train, and never, under any circumstances, cut off your air supply while masturbating.

Following a brief period of hard-won independence she came to appreciate the fact that people aren't foolish as much as they are kind.

Following a brief period of hard-won independence she came to appreciate the fact that people aren't foolish as much as they are kind. Peg understood that at a relatively early age. Me, it took years.

He spends a lot of time telling you how smart he is, which is odd because, if you're truly all that bright, people can usually figure it out on their own.

That said, I admire people who are curious and open their minds to new possibilities, especially after a certain age. You have to draw the line somewhere, though, and with me it's my anus.

Pointing to the oversized crate that served as a manger, one particularly insufficient wise man proclaimed, "A child is bored." Yes, well, so was this adult.

If owls were the professors of the avian kingdom, then kookaburras, I thought, might well be the gym teachers.

My Yiayiá was exactly the sort of friend I'd liked as an adult, someone with an endless supply of hard-luck stories and no desire to ever write a book.

A memoir is a work of sustained narrative prose controlled by an idea of the self under obligation to lift from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform the event, deliver wisdom.

The board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who

Los refranes son siempre ambivalentes, a una sentencia le corresponde su opuesta, en eso consiste la sabiduría popular, en no equivocarse nunca y lo mismo a quien madruga Dios le ayuda que no por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano.

Desde los doce años tengo la vista cansada, cansada de ver tanta estupidez alrededor

Lo de morir despacio y dejar un cadáver gastadísimo me gusta.

It is not well to forget the past," Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

you can't waste resources reinforcing failure Ã¢â'¬Â¦