Quotes About Wisdom

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

You watch the pennies, and the dollars take care of themselves.

I can pass on a lot of information. I'm just never going to be the 21-year-old Penny Hardaway again.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

As I got older I started doing what I wanted. I enjoy my life now. Age helped; people change a lot between 17 and 30.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

A lot of people say I've got an old head on young shoulders and I think that's because I'd been around boxing for a long time before I actually started doing it.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

You definitely have to think of the perception of things before you actually do certain things. It may not seem like it's a big deal to you yourself, but there's a bigger picture.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.