Quotes About Wisdom

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.

I read 'The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success' every day. The first time I read it, I was 35, depressed, and about to quit surfing.

A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.

What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.

Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

There are very few things that surprise me.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.

I can't control everything that's said, but I've been around. Nothing will surprise me.

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.