Quotes About Wisdom

The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

It'd be nice to learn enough from each mistake that we'd be guaranteed to never repeat that same mistake twice. But, how many times have you said, 'I'll never do that again,' only to find yourself right back at it a few days later. Learning from our mistakes requires humility and a willingness to look for new strategies to become better.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

It doesn't matter how much you already know. It's about showing humility and a willingness to learn; not just in movies, but in life in general.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him, he'd be like, 'Man, Kamasi, I've got this new thing! Nobody ever heard anything like this before!' It's amazing hanging out with somebody that was born in 1918.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.