Kirk Hammett Quotes

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Who

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Wife

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wisdom

• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Wisdom
  • Better
  • Fate

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Wisdom
  • Politics
  • Better

• Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Small
  • Wisdom
  • Leadership

• Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • May
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Up
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

  

  Matt Redman
  • Change
  • Reason
  • Wisdom

• I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Lost

• I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Wisdom