Quotes About Wisdom

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

The highest state is laughter.

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Advice? Look at your pay statements.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot of applause because I'm not keeling over.

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I was just starting out with Simply Red. Gabriella and I would have been another one of those divorce statistics.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.