Quotes About Wisdom

Since when do you and I talk about the world," she said. "The world is what it is." "Yeah, I know." "Not only do you know, you've helped me to know." "Good to be useful," I said. "What has always made me respect you, even in the bad times, was your ability to look out at the world and see what's there. Not what you'd like to see, or even what you need to see, but simply what's there.

Theory is no substitute for information," Susan said.

You can be smart and not know much," I said. He nodded and drank some Coke. "Smartest broad I ever fucked," he said. And that in itself must be some kind of fame.

me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, a wise man tells her that her mouth looks extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also

Grow old along with me.....the Best is yet to be.....The Last of life---for which the First was made.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

In the multitude of wisdom is grief, and they that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

Archie believed in always doing the smart thing. Not the thing you ached to do, not the impulsive act, but the thing that would pay off later.

That's the way adults often talk to children. You know they're not going to listen, but you want to tell them anyway just so you know that you have.

Cole stared at the Pinocchio clock, then a small ceramic figurine of Jiminy Cricket a client had given him. Let your conscience be your guide. Everyone needed a Jiminy.

Giving them room is often the better part of valor, especially when you're trying not to make things worse.

But adversity has a way of strengthening. If it doesn't kill you, you learn things.

You're a very wise man. Thank you." He spread his hands. "To possess great wisdom obliges one to share it. Enjoy.

Yeah, well, try living with it. Getting old is hell.

people over the years

If the evidence did not exist right in front of him, it didn't exist, period. And following from that would come his belief in the essential wisdom of the common person, who also knew the world only from the grassroots level in the most immediate, concrete way.

For it is the books you have read, as much as the people you have met, that constitute autobiography.

Related lessons: Don't go hunting ghosts, and don't get too deep into a situation where your civilizational advantage is of little help.

Like all wise men, he thought tragically: for we create moral standards in order to measure our own inadequacies.

Every minute of every day is a gift, and growing old a privilege, not a right.