Quotes About Wisdom

I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

A footballer must quit at the right time.

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'

I want to be healthy when I quit, and I want to quit while I'm on my top. A lot of fighters continue because probably they need the money. My goal was invest, get out of the game healthy and secure. I feel like that's a real champion. Not someone who gave it all in the ring, and then at the end of his life, they don't have anything.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

I don't have a problem with ageing - in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily... it doesn't faze me at all.

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

I like Nietzsche. I quote him in many of my books. He was born 100 years before me.

Bob Hope said: 'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.' And while this quote is generally amusing, it is even more amusing when you know he said that when he was old.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.