Quotes About Wisdom

No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.

He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn.

Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.  He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.

Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate.

Why should I and the beauty in me be ruled by the dead? Beauty is alive and everlasting. Languages come and go. They are the dust of the dead.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.  It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. 

La vita non è sempre questione di tenere in mano delle buone carte ma, a volte, di saper giocare bene una mano svantaggiosa.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly;

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

Nobody remembers young Kasturba... Once I called Basu Bhattacharya and told him 'I am only getting roles of a mother.' He told me, 'There are only two people who can play young and old with equal ease, you and Sanjeev Kumar. So, don't feel bad about it.'

Three years at the institute had not taught me as much as two weeks on the sets of 'Susman.'

People are more than two-dimensional, and again I think the complexities in life, and in one's makeup, grow as you get older, partly through experience.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

My grandfather played a big part in raising me, and he taught me how to be a gentleman. Since he first told me those types of things when I was 13 years old, I've taken all those types of lessons from him to heart. I'd like to keep that with me.