Quotes about Wisdom

It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Now we understand that experience counts for a lot. Tessa and I have been together for a very long time, we've been in a lot of situations and we know how to handle them.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.

I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

You see, there is one thing I learned from following in Papa Sevier's footsteps as I grew up. Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today,

We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.

My pappy used to say, any day you don't find a reason to laugh is like livin' two days, neither one of them worth a whit.

The thing about mistakes is, they become valuable when you learn from them. I

There is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.