Quotes About Wisdom

Poppy is basically forty years old, says Floyd admiringly. You know, how you get forty and you suddenly stop giving a shit about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life. Well, Poppy's already there.

We were all too young. Did you know that the parts of the brain involved in decision-making aren't fully developed until you're twenty-five years old?

I know I keep coming here and telling you that I'm growing up, but before I used to think that being grown up meant doing grown-up things. Now I know that's not true, that being a grown-up is not about getting married, about smart flats and reading groups; it's about taking responsibility for your own actions and the consequences of those actions.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men.

If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

SEEN IT ALL, HEARD IT ALL, DONE IT ALL. JUST CAN'T REMEMBER IT ALL.

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

The need has always been to be calm, humble and grounded, this is what I have learned from my community and these are my values.

We would all be incredibly boring to a vampire who is 400, 500 years old.

My previous bosses - Louis van Gaal and Marcello Lippi, to name two - have all taught me something.

When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.