Quotes About Wisdom

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Getting older has compensations, though when you hit 50 you become very aware of your own mortality and it makes you reassess.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.