Quotes About Wisdom

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Work as smart as you are able.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

Never work with animals or children.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.