Quotes About Wisdom

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

If I believe that I have done it all, there's nothing more for me to learn and explore.

I didn't really come out and expose my age.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all.

There are women who are just extraordinary, who are smart and brilliant, sensual women in their 70s and even 80s!

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Extremes are dangerous.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.

I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

Everything goes with age. Your eyesight, your energy levels.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.