Quotes About Wisdom

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

I know who the great poets are.

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.

Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'

Logic is pointless.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

If we go and see hundreds of different market resources, you are seeing hundreds of different points of view, and once in a while, my experience is, you will come across one or two that are just outstanding, and you never would have thought of them.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.