Quotes About Wisdom

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Don't fall in love too fast. You think you know their dreams, but you just know their plans. Plans come from the head, but dreams come from the heart.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

If you want to make God happy, tell him your plans.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Turning 40, your past really comes back to you. You're very aware of where you've been the plans you've made, the memories you have, and the mistakes you've made.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I pass it on. That's what it's about. If somebody gives you mental jewelry and you wear it for so long, you want to give it to somebody else for them pass it on.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Only a genius can play a fool.

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

I played until 37-years-old and my last three or four years I learnt the most.

To get a former player that has been there and has that extra intel. Jose Higueras is a great coach for that and a great person as well.

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.