At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
