Quotes About Wisdom

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

Thank goodness I've saved my money.

I, thank God, don't engage in punditry anymore. That part of my life is behind me.

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.

Thank God I'm still on my feet. I went for the worst guys ever in order to recognize somebody who was good for me.

Thank God I have a great support group and friends and family but I'm learning a lot.

I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.

I want to say thank you Arsene Wenger for your legacy. For all the coaches in the world, he is a reference. We learned, I learned from him all the things in football.

Never take anything for granted.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

He's always with me; I'm always asking. He can be my father, or he can be my coach, or he can be an ex-player. I can ask him so many things. He teaches me a lot, and I'm really thankful.

We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others.

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

In an age where overindulgence seems to be the norm, I can't help but look back and feel thankful that my parents chose to hold out on giving me everything that I wanted growing up.

We had to struggle for what we've learned, but we're so thankful.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.