Mohammad Amir Quotes

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Wisdom begins at the end.