Quotes About Wisdom

Thank yuh, ma'am, but don't say you'se ole. You'se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo' ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo' young girl days to spend wid me.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. Mrs.

Most people is thin-brained.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Now, dat's how everything wuz, Pheoby, jus' lak Ah told yuh. So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.

are years that ask questions and years that

Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

Don't make God look so foolish, finding fault with everything he made.

Aw, don't make God look so foolish, findin' fault wid everything He made

dey's parched up from not knowin' things. Dem meatskins is got tuh rattle tuh make out they's alive. Let 'em consolate theyselves wid talk. 'Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat.

They don't know if life is a mess of cornmeal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

suggestions

Listen twice. Think Once. If a muthafucka shows you their flaw, believe 'em. That goes for family, too." Promise's

Buddha wasn't the man everybody made him out to be. He wasn't the type of man who poured out the belief of there's no one higher than him. He just wanted to teach his people the importance of knowledge. Kind of like Elijah Muhammad.

Listen twice, but only think once. "I

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

I was always more street-smart than academic, as such, but I took a Mensa test once and did quite well in it.

Academics are very important.

I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.

I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.