Quotes About Wisdom

I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.

The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.

I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Look twice before you leap.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

You can observe a lot by watching.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.