Quotes About Wisdom

Isn't it funny that God takes you and puts you through the unendurable, and then, at the moment you have just begun to understand it and have some wisdom, it ends?

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.

Being 40 and having three kids puts lots of things in perspective and helps me stay grounded.

The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything's fixed not in your favour.

I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don't want to be one of those people.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Always follow good counsels.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

Folly always knows the answer.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

No one but a fool is always right.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.