Quotes About Wisdom

It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life.

Don't let your tongue be your worst enemy. —John Franzese CHAPTER

The everyday Joes, like you and me, a lot of them know nothing firsthand and think they know everything. And they talk-talk-talk-talk and post their opinions all over the Internet and it's loud and ridiculous. It's like we're all in this ship of fools and nobody knows if the boat is even real." Jack looks at me.

Maybe wisdom tends to latch onto itself when it finds itself in various places.

This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you'd been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn't in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you'd been missing, something you didn't even know to look for.

Despite all the available technology, the tools doctors often rely on most are the most old-fashioned—a phone, a respected colleague, a mentor or friend.

One of the human limitations in medicine is that no one can know everything.

I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

To understand everything is to forgive.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

However, a very wise man of my acquaintance once said: 'I just had this dumped on me. Brilliance takes time.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.

I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

I've found in life that bygones are a bit like collard greens. They tend to taste bitter. It's best not to chew on them overly long.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.

You see, there is one thing I learned from following in Papa Sevier's footsteps as I grew up. Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today,

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future." - The Book of Lost Friends