Quotes About Wisdom

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Beware the man of one book.

Fools' names, like fools' faces,Are often seen in public places.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

It is important to be passionate, but it is also important to combine the heart and the head. I have made mistakes in both my private and professional lives.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Never argue with a profit.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you... Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand.

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.