Quotes About Wisdom

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.

Disenchantment is a malady, and even if it is caused by particular circumstances, it is wise to overcome it as soon as possible. The more things a person is interested in, the greater their chances of happiness.

The common route to this knowledge is life experience

A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

This is a great learning experience. It builds character.

Do not believe everything you think or that you believe.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event.

I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I'll see the odd grey hair - but this is life.

Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

We have more to offer than just looking good.

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.