Michael Dorris Quotes

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Night is the mother of counsels.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru