Quotes About Wisdom

Don't let people look down on you because you're young. I think adults can learn a lot from kids, just like kids learn a lot from adults. It's vice versa.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

My view is, the most important thing as prime minister is trying to make the right judgments. In order to make good judgments, you need good advice; you need good principles, and you need a clear head, and you need to have a sense of equilibrium.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

My view was that if you're going to make a mistake in your predictions, make sure you make them the right way. Don't put yourself into a situation where, in fact, you say you're going to do something, and then all of a sudden you can't.

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.