Quotes About Wisdom

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

I think why I'm sometimes fearless is because I've found, and this comes with age, if you challenge something your fear goes away.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

I was a very feisty teenager and I got into a few altercations, and, you know, you mature and realize that's not the proper way to handle things.

At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

I read 'Fences' when I was about 30 and I thought: This is too sad.' But you get older and you start to go, 'Yeah, yeah, this is like life, why wouldn't I want to do it?'

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Many admire, few know.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

I've worked really hard in this industry and feel I've learnt a few things along the way.

I've had quite a long time in government, and I've learned a few things.

I'm making fewer mistakes as I get older.

You aren't going to show me something I haven't seen. Nobody can bring something to me that I don't already know, not in boxing. That's where I've mastered my trade, I can't talk in other fields.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I don't fight people for fun.

I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

I think being 50 and being me is different than any other fighter in any era.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.