Quotes About Wisdom

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was alive, or too busy, or too much of a know-it-all.

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.

To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Truth comes out in wine.

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I think true love - love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

You can judge the fact that I like video games or wine or love basketball or like going fishing. You can judge all that. But there are certain things that you can't, and I think people are figuring that out. Me, being from the old school, I figured that out early.

Burgess Meredith taught me a lot about wine.

I learn more from my coaches and I feel that I have continued to get better offensively. I'm like fine wine, the older, the better.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.

I qualify myself like a bottle of wine - the more I get older, the more it tastes sweet!

Art is like wine. It gets better with age.

Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it's no big deal, and it's more important to have a glass of wine.

Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.

Goalkeepers are like wine, the longer you keep it, the better it tastes.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.