Quotes About Wisdom

With truth like a fairy tale and the way it unwinds, We've our entire lives to 'make-up' our minds.

Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.

Education is the key," he drilled into me. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Said Confucius himself: "It is the human that can make the Way great, not the Way that can make the human great.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

death was permanent, and should be avoided if possible.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

It's a lesson in life—don't look back, you'll trip over.

I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine)

Age to me is in the mind. I've seen 70-year-olds who are already dead and 90-year-olds who can't stop themselves living. I stay young by refusing to be old.

I know that," he said. "But what are you doing? You're giving me an actor playing a drunk. I'm paying you to be a drunk. You're trying to talk slurred and walk crooked. A real drunk is trying to speak clearly and walk straight." My wise and wily repertory theatre director had summed up movie acting in one line, and I remember it and use it to this day. My

You are an old soul, fortunately housed in very lovely wrapping.

You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.

A bit early to put all the chips in the fryer just yet. Why don't you just wait and see? Remember: There's a reason the Fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

Truly divine faculties of intellect and imagination can make gods of us all

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.