Quotes About Wisdom

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

When I started out, nutrition wasn't a huge thing in my arsenal. Getting older, I'm getting a little smarter, thinking about longevity.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

When I was younger, I was very thick-skinned - my skin is actually getting thinner as I get older.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.