Quotes About Wisdom

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

I can't give political advice to politicians.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.

'As The River Flows' is an important Assamese film with a message for everybody to ponder upon.

I know some people like to get up and pontificate about everything they did in the past and have a lot of long stories about that. But I'm not one of those kind of guys.

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.

As my grandma used to say, 'Between now and then, a pope could be born.' We never say what's going to happen tomorrow. We make the most of today.

The older I get, the more grays are popping out. They're definitely all over my beard.

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.