Quotes About Wisdom

I love great quotes.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

I always learn something from every race.

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

Just taking any kind of information you can gather, listening to the differences, the way they have gone about racing over the years, whatever they are willing to share with you it's important to hear those differing opinions and try to balance them out.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Tell a woman it's going to rain, and she'll get out the umbrellas. Well, in the matter of money, there's always the chance of rain ahead.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Libraries raised me.

I was raised on Bruce Lee.

I had some good Alabama raising. You might do something wrong, but you wouldn't do it but once.

I love my mum for raising us, and I love my dad for teaching me what to avoid.

In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

I played Ram in 'Ramayan' for two years and I learnt to be a good human being from that character.

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

When I started out, I wasn't a thinking bowler, but talking to seniors and coaches helped. They would always tell me that I ought to be clear about where I wanted to bowl before I ran in to bowl.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.