Quotes About Wisdom

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

Stay in school... Even being a rapper you need an education.

I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.

In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it's rare that they are egotistical.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

I don't think any extremism is rational.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.