Quotes About Wisdom

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays." —Meredith Willson

Days and nights among the trees is not time off the books. It is not a subtraction from the days of life but an addition to them.

I may be dead, but I ain't stupid.

Where did you grow up?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?

I learned from a tough Philly cop, Carmen Morales. She taught me the rules." "What rules?" "Rule #1: Trust no one. Rule #2: Miss nothing. Rule #3: Reveal nothing. Rule #4: Question everything. Rule #5: Eye on the clock. Rule #6: Get lucky. Rule #7: Trust your instincts. "Good rules to live by. The army has rules too." "I bet.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.

ability to answer their own questions… Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

I was thinking about the cow thing. About how hanging on to an ex-boyfriend is like chewing your cud until somebody drops a fresh bale of hay in front of you. Or something like that.

You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool a horse.

Mom said that going back to an ex-boyfriend was like buying your own garage sale junk after the sale's over. Somebody else may think your old stuff is gold, but you know better. It's not golden for you.

Cleaning my hand print off of a mirror. Don't high-five your reflection. Just nod or wink.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Some people say it is better to appear foolish than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I say if it is already thought then you have nothing to lose.

How do you know when you're getting dumber? It gets harder, and harder to tell, doesn't it?

the only thing tears ever brought a person were wrinkles before their time.

As my grandmother always said, there was only one perfect person to ever walk this earth, and God took him back.

At any rate, the lesson from history seems to be that continued globalization cannot be taken for granted. If its consequences are not managed wisely and creatively, a retreat from openness becomes a distinct possibility.

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now. Less time to bounce back. And so I heed the urgent whisper and move with greater and greater deliberation.