Quotes About Wisdom

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

Let's just say I've learned a lot and seen things differently than any other average high school kid.

I'm a mother now and married, and knowing what I know now, I would definitely have gone about things quite differently.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

We learn so much from difficulties.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

I know I deal with it, I'm sure a lot of other people deal with it: you have that little funny dig you want to give on Twitter or you want to put in your column. Don't do it. it always undermines your argument.

I want to age with some dignity.

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a conversation with a 15-year-old. I don't dine with 15-year-olds and talk about life. Our experiences are completely different.

I learned marketing at my dinner table.

The diploma has become a brand and learning should never be about a brand. Learning, the real kind, actually never ends.

When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.

I don't know what's so disappointing about being alive, but I will say that the longer I'm alive, the more I appreciate not dying.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.