Quotes About Wisdom

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

I met Michael Jordan as a kid. I train with George Gervin also, so that's a big thrill as well. I've learned a lot from him.

I'm not a thrill seeker.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Merlin was very definitely supposed to be an old man guiding the young Arthur to the throne.

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

My mom has always been beside me, always telling me what's right and what's not, guiding me through it all, keeping me away from bad company and from bad habits.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I'm so grateful for everything I went through. We learn from the hardships.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.