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

— Doug Larson · Wisdom quote

— DOUG LARSON

American columnist and humorist · 1926 – 2017

Doug Larson was an American newspaper columnist and humorist whose syndicated column of witty one-liners appeared in papers across the United States.

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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.