Quotes About Wisdom

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, 'Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.'

My whole life in the streets, I was taught not to answer questions and just keep my mouth shut.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

As you mature as a woman, you relate to songs differently. You've experienced more things. If I had a choice to have or have not had the tough stuff happen, well, I don't wish for that for anybody, to strengthen them or make them a better person.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

I think you can learn from other people's mistakes and other people's strengths, and that is why I have always been watching, with particular attention, other drivers - and not only drivers at the top.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.

I've got a couple of grays in my beard and maybe a little salt and pepper in my hair. If I let my hair down and go through it, you'd see a good bit of grays. Maybe from the stress of the road and the crazy business I'm in.

I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.

As you grow, you stretch. You become more, and you have more to give if you've lived and learned and experienced. And I try to stay healthy. I eat as healthy as I can. I drink lots of water, and I work out just about every day of my life.