Quotes About Wisdom

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

I believe failures are very important in any person's growth. I've learnt what not to do from them.

In life, I think huge failures are extremely important.

I learnt a lot from my failures.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

I hope we've lightened up over the years. We're fairly comfortable where we are, living-wise, and we're excited, honestly, just to still be around. I think we're less earnest than we were.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.