Quotes About Wisdom

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

They talk most who have the least to say.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about.

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

I don't want to go on a talk show and talk about stuff I don't know about.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12.

I know I've made mistakes, and sometimes I've talked about things too openly or directly. That wasn't good, and I've learned from that.