Quotes About Wisdom

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

My objective as a mentor, as a father, as a manager and as a former participant of the great game of boxing is to protect mine, but also the opponent. Especially if I can see things which I have experienced before.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sometimes, yeah, I wish I would have protected my heart a little more, absolutely.

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

I have made a lot of mistakes, but I am proud of them all.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.

Looking back, I sometimes wish I had done things differently. But if I had, I'm not sure that I wouldn't have proven to be my own worst enemy.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.