Quotes About Wisdom

A wise man -- a cop named Capslock -- once observed that he'd never seen a murder with a large sum of money attached to it, in which the money wasn't important. On the other hand, Virgil hadn't ever seen a murder that involved an intense sexuality in which sexuality wasn't involved.

Don't get your honey where you get your money

Virgil was a social guy. So social, he'd been married three times over a short space of years, until he finally gave it up. He didn't plan to resume until he'd grown old enough to distinguish love from infatuation.

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Only the criminally stupid or naïve assumed that the other side was less clever.

Well, you gotta keep up," Kidd said. He paused, looked up at the sky, then said, "You know, I take that back. Really, maybe you don't need to keep up. Maybe keeping up is for idiots.

but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.

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I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

Well, life is like that sometimes, Isabel said. We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them.

Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.

And also because I know if I've figured it out, someone else has too, because there's always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

Who are you, who is so wise in the way of alien fungus?

There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I

What we don't know can't hurt us.

That's aging's trump card; they still can't replace brains.

She shrugged. "I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me." Her

I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Hey, you know what, basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not actually all that smart, now, is it. This was because Lenson

One does not need visions when one has data.

He said he wants your wisdom about certain members of the executive committee. He's apparently finding a few of them difficult to reach a rapport with." "It's because he's an asshole." "That would have been my guess, too.

Thus arises suffering—from our ignorance of the truth of life and our refusal to accept that truth. Our