Tyrese Gibson Quotes

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

The wise are wise only because they love.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Friends accept you the way you are.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Everything is a learning experience.

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.