Quotes About Wisdom

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

If you are turning 40, just be graceful, don't get into teenager outfits, put two hair bands and go 'aww.' Don't do that! Don't be stupid. I don't want to live that life. It is so fake, so manufactured. I am not interested.