Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.
Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don’t want to remember.” - Rachel Morgan
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever.
Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
