Quotes About Wisdom

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

When in doubt, shut the fuck up.

some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

I talk to myself every once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. I

Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.

What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have, can be

Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.

fear is not truly the same as respect. I'm learning that, at last.

Scared would be better than stupid.

I'd grown up, and I was finally my father's daughter. Some choices you make with your heart, some with your head, but when in doubt choose head over heart—it will keep you alive.

The older I get the more I realize that ignorance may not be bliss, but sometimes it beats the alternative.

sometimes things need to hurt some now, so they don't hurt a lot more later.

Some truths don't make you feel better. Some truths just hurt more." No one argued with him; we'd all been around violence and death too long to argue with something that true.

hay que ser gilipollas para creer que de ilusión también se vive. -Circo de los Malditos (Anita Blake, cazavampiros / 3. Hamilton, Laurell K.

My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave.

Think before you speak. Take a deep breath, people suggested. Count to ten. Count sheep. Oh, wait, that was for sleeping. Even in her own head, her tongue ran ahead of her brain. It propelled her into all sorts of absurd situations. Elopements. Scandals. This.

It's a virtue to know one's own heart and mind. It saves a lot of bother and a great deal of unhappiness.

An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences. You coulda done plenty, Joey. I never gave you a chance.