Quotes About Wisdom

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret.

I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me.

In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are things I shouldn't have said or done. It was early in my career, maybe too early. I didn't know it was the only Champions League I'd win, for example.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

Knowledge is the real power.

Obviously, aging has a certain amount of mellowing process because there's certain things you realise you were doing when you were younger that were plain ridiculous, stupid.

When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

I went into investments out of interest and thought I knew a little. The longer I've been involved, the less I realise I'd known.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.