Quotes About Wisdom

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and matured.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.

I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.

I've made plenty of mistakes, and I'm sure I'll make more.

I just have to play smart and play the best I can. I think that will be plenty good enough.

You're always trying to learn from the past to plot a course in the future that will be better. You're always trying to learn.

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

The fight with Holmes was a plus. I gained so much experience.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.