Caroline Paul Quotes

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Some people have nothing but experience.

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.