All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“To be my own god is to spend my life pretending that I am what I am not. But how do I pretend that such pretending isn’t destroying my life?”

“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”

“A wise man does not pretend to know what he doesn’t know. He will be quiet and listen to the wiser.”

“Logic would say, ‘pay it no mind’. Yet the heart would say, ‘to pay it no mind would be to pay too much’.”

“A wise man does not pretend to know what he know not. He will listen to the wiser.”

“Real life is about growing wisdom and dancing with empowering questons, as opposed to owning and hoarding the expected certainty of knowledge… which rapidly becomes outdated.”

“When wisdom is gold, then knowledge is fool’s gold.”

“You are not born with knowledge; you have to learn it. You are not born with wisdom; you have to earn it.”

“Will it take the death of me to finally learn that the things that I describe as success may very well be the death of me?”

“If I see brokenness only as brokenness, I will have broken the opportunity in my brokenness. And that is the greatest brokenness of all.”

“You know, doctor, wisdom comes at a hell of an hour—when youth is gone, the storm is over and the girls have gone home.”

“He and his fate walk together, Master and Slave. In which order, only time and action tell.”

“The idea of receiving a letter from the IRS is not a pleasant one for anyone. What makes it worse is the confusion, the fear, the assumptions and the thoughts of all the worst-case scenarios that can make you feel like you have a tidal wave of stress.”

“The false light can only lead us deeper into darkness.”

“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”