Quotes About Wisdom

We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.

If elected Speaker, I promise you that we will have the courage to lead the fight for our conservative principles and make our case to the American people. But we will also have the wisdom to listen to our constituents and each other so that we always move forward together.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Fundamentally speaking, bodies age; feelings don't.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to us. That people are still reading and repeating what he said so long ago is something I find quite fascinating.

Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Pharrell's affected everyone through music. To work with someone like that - it's a gift. You ever meet somebody you can learn so much from, and all you have to do is be quiet and watch? That's what it was like. I took in how he moves, speaks, how he creates, the whole nine.

It speaks truth when you listen to Bob Marley.

My mother's music speaks to me as an oracle.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.