Quotes About Wisdom

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.

I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.

I don't make plans for my future. I have learned that you cannot predict what will happen.

You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

I learned a long time ago not to predict elections.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I can't make any predictions, I'm not an astrologer.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.