Quotes About Wisdom

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Quality is the Buddha.

As you get older, the quality of life is more important.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

I watched Hiddink and Ferguson at close quarters, and I realized that I am not a coach.

I'm a research queen.

If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh you say a lot of things, sometimes too many, and you do get into trouble.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer.

There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.