Quotes About Wisdom

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key thing: to have the information.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Being a physical specimen doesn't mean you're any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff - that's my game. That's what makes a good inside player.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

Silence is safer than speech.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I think every ounce of pain in just living always ends up being the best thing that happened to me. It's always a growth period. I learn at the speed of pain.

One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.

What I tell a lot of the younger guys is, 'My speed isn't the same, my agility isn't the same, but yet I still can talk.' That's an extra defender out there.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.