Quotes About Wisdom

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

Yes, I have spent. I have lived and had accidents. It's all part of life's wonderful experience.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers!

I think it's a wonderful thing, turning 50. I think everyone should do it at least once.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it's a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I never think about my age very much. I've always lived my life the same way, full of excitement and anticipation of wonderful things and the knowledge that some not-so-wonderful things come with it.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

I've learned from the greatest people, and I've got wonderful things to pass on.

There's nothing better than a woman who has aged wonderfully.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

My mother persuaded me not to pluck my eyebrows when I was a teenager - right now I'm so grateful I never did! She also taught me to pour 2 kg. of salt in my bath whenever I feel swollen and tired - and to end it with a cold shower. It does wonders.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.