Wisdom Quotes

"Maturity is the ability to hold multiple contradictions in mind simultaneously."

"Wisdom is knowing what you don't know and being comfortable with that uncertainty."

"We must learn to live with uncertainty or be forever anxious."

"We become what we practice thinking about."

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

"I'll tell you what kills me about people."

"What really gets me is that everyone wants to think they're unique."

"That's one of the things that kill me."

"It's not a good idea."

"I'm quite perceptive."

"That's the whole problem."

"I would do it differently now."

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing what you don't know."

"The road to hell is paved with works in progress."

"Desire is not something to be ashamed of; it is something to be understood."

"To grow old is to discover that you were always wrong."

"The secret of life is that there is no secret."

"To write well is to think well."

"To live fully is to live with full awareness of life's absurdity."

"To write is to attempt to capture the uncapturable."

"One must learn to accept that life is not like a novel. Life is much more like a story told by an idiot."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like fire in the hands of a child."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is."

"Bad things are going to happen anyway, and therefore let them happen in a way which you can control."

"Cynicism is a form of idealism."

"Never give a sucker an even break."

"You cannot help anyone who does not want help."

"Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness."