Quotes About Wisdom

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin' like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan

the same and you know it." "Isn't it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That's life.

because of her foolishness

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Give fools the first and women the last word.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by.

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

Poet's Work" Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoffs from this condensery

Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.

The !Kung are strongly set against violence, and accord it no honor. To have to fight is to have failed to find a solution by wiser means... "Fighting is dangerous—someone might get killed".

I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle for a few loose ends, because even if everything in your life is connected to everything else, that way madness lies.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

How could my heart be so wrong?" "Because it was such a young heart.

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I'd ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was passionately in love with a woman who possessed the wisdom to adore him as he deserved.