Quotes About Wisdom

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

People will want to say this or that about you, but take it with a pinch of salt.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

I don't do credit cards 'cause my mama told me back in the day she never dated a man who tows a wallet. 'Cause that mean he ain't have enough money.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you've ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It's a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

You never wanna rise to the top too fast in anything.

I don't wanna say I'm growing up, but I definitely feel content.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

A guru is like a live road map. If you want to walk uncharted terrain, I think it is sensible to walk with a road map.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.