Quotes About Wisdom

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love.

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

As all professional athletes know, Father Time is undefeated, and when I wake up in the morning, my back especially lets me know that it's about time to bow out gracefully, let the young guys in and move to being a full time fan of the sport.

I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated.

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

Whether they 'lean into' career, family, or both, let's not underestimate the wisdom of women to define happiness and success for themselves.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

Common sense is often underrated.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

What one fool can understand, another can.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.