Quotes About Wisdom

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

There's nothing more valuable than your freedom in your life. When you're in the streets you're gambling with that 24/7. If you don't know that you're just flat out dumb to me.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

I'm honest and tell it like it is. I've been around the horn a few times and learned valuable lessons from screwing up a bit. So, if I can pass off advice or make someone smile on the way to work, I'm for it.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away served me well, and I think about them and use them every day. It was much more valuable than any business school could have provided.

One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy.