Quotes About Wisdom

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

The teenage years are my least favorite, though my son is phenomenal. He does not get in trouble, and he's not a bad kid. But the fact that they think they know so much.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

When I was 20 I was like, 'I'm not a teenager anymore. I got this.' But when I look back I'm like, 'Oh no. Oh no. You did not.'

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'

I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

We're not MTV, we're not teenagers. We kind of have a little bit more of an idea of who we are and what our comedy is because we've been doing it for so long.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I'll admit that I enjoyed my 20s more than my teens, my 30s more than my 20s.

Ever since my early teens, I've tried to swing the driver very fast. Back then, it was as fast as I could. But now that I'm 24, I'm working to dial back some of that speed, knowing I have an extra gear if needed. The goal is to protect myself from injuries down the road - especially to my back.

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in.

I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.

A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.