Quotes About Wisdom

Not everything can be perfect.

Obviously, if I could go back and change anything, I would be a perfect man. And I know there's no perfect man.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

I'm the only person in wrestling that realizes I'm too old to do this anymore, and that's why I'm not a performer and I'm not going to be on 'ROH.'

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Beware of the person of one book.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.