Quotes About Wisdom

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

You learn more from the negative things.

I should only look back at moments that were disparaging, look down upon, negative for me - moments where I could learn something. And if I have been able to use that learning in future, then I am happy about it.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

He was the father of the neighborhood and the voice of reason for everyone. Everything I needed to know to run my business and to be a good human being, I got right here from my father.

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

I've been around long enough to know that you never say never.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

You never stop learning from this game. That's the crazy thing.

Live to live. Don't live to die. And never stop learning.

I have learnt to never take anything for granted.

My motto is you should never take criticism from people you would never go to for advice.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Never take advice, including this.