Quotes About Wisdom

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I am often stunned and charmed by the simple brilliance of what children say. But you have to be willing to listen.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

There's nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that's 50 percent stupid.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

People are not stupid.

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

You don't get old being stupid.