Quotes About Wisdom

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.

no need for you to get involved, Elenita.

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

if Eve had had a spade and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple.

Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

People don't want to think about it.' 'I can see why,' I said. 'It makes my head hurt.' 'Still, you did better than most people. You're a pretty smart kid.' I rolled my eyes. 'Gee, thanks.

It's weird, because I know Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot

If you cannot find the truth where you are, Where do you expect to find it? —Master Dogen

Most coaches don't want to do something unless they think of it. Morgan has never had that kind of ego. He sees something good, someone gives him an idea, if it makes sense to him, he uses it. He never needs credit, never needs to prove he's the smartest guy in the room.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

toilet. And

appearance.