Quotes About Wisdom

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

I learned how to play the game from Buck O'Neil," Banks would say. Buck said no, Ernie Banks knew how to play, but what he did learn was how to play the game with love.

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

KINDNESS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WISDOM; RECOGNITION OF THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. I have never found this to be the case. I've gotten this far being wise without being kind, and my feeling is: If it ain't broke don't fix it.

for i am old. so very old. older than she got to be. and I'm not sure a person ought to live to be too old. for when you can´t live life, you´re just burning life, sucking air and making turds.

It makes you less ignorant to actually know what you're talking about, so listen to me.

Nell'invecchiare – e, in realtà, non è che sia poi così vecchio: neanche arrivo ai sessanta – scopro che per me il passato ha più importanza del presente. Non sarà un bene, però è la verità. All'epoca, tutto era ben più intenso. Il sole era più caldo. Il vento più fresco. I cani più svegli.

I often told myself I didn't mind aging, but now I found myself constantly wishing I was young and that I could do it all over again, and differently.

Your age doesn't matter," said The Big Guy, which was spoken like someone who had never fucked an old lady. I am not suggesting that I have....Oh hell. A few times, at fundraisers for charities back in the States.

I don't know it's such a good idea to dig up the past like an old grave. What's in it might stink.

I was starting to feel as if I were getting along in years and the recent ones were angry at me. By the time you're fifty you start to realize just how much of your time on earth you've wasted.

A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen.

The Jedi taught you much more than simply how to fight. They taught you how to live, how to live within the Force, and upholad the bond you share with it.

A wise friend describes therapy as an encounter that takes us out of our misery and places us into our pain.

Life is a tough teacher. First she gives the test.

The quoted are equated with being the leaders of an age, as if there sits not in silence an even wiser sage.

Jaybird don't rob his own nes'.

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short--a fleeting vapor-- Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch! Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.

I love my life because a part of me has learned how to give up hope, and that, I suspect, is a dangerous lesson to unlearn.

At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Certainty is the sum of need and faith. Wisdom is the remainder of living. Knowledge is the division of doubt by facts. Truth is the product of them all.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.