Quotes About Wisdom

I feel like listening is a huge part of life - not only listening to people, but listening to people that you believe in, people who you think are wise.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

'Tis folly to be wise.

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

When I was at drama school some of the teachers, who were very wise, said to me, 'You're going to be a great actor in your 50s. Now, you're not malleable enough. You're doing one thing well but you need to loosen up a bit.' That happens to actors. You learn more about it and hopefully you get better at it as you get older.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.

My brother calls me penny wise, pound foolish.

I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

I want to encourage all Missourians to make wise decisions, love your neighbors and support each other in every way you can.

My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Every group has its time. Nobody reigns forever, except Michael Jackson. So, you've gotta be ready for that - and be wise about what you're doing.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Wise people, my parents.

Look, it makes sense to be able to take part of what you've earned in this life and have it grow. And I hope that other musicians out there that do have their moments of profit and of success are wise enough not to squander those profits and that success.

The wise are above books.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.

I'd like to be very wise.