Quotes About Wisdom

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

I wear my age with pride.

I am in the prime of my senility.

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

My father, who is now 94, was an actor. The prime thing he taught us as children was to walk through the world with our eyes open.

In India, no one becomes prime minister before they are in their mid-70s.

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

If we had our priorities straight as a country, we'd consider leaving fame behind a mark of wisdom and character.

My dad felt I should give education priority since it will help me think better and differently from others.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

I was always taught to keep things private.

A lot of things, experiences I had, helped me to grow up and mature, both in terms of my football career and my private life too.

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.

I've been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.