Quotes About Wisdom

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

I've slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.

When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.