Quotes About Wisdom

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Christopher Gore is a great character, portrayed with wisdom and understanding.

Becoming eighty is a matter of life or death. I chose life. It is a much better position to be in, and it's easier on your back.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

In moments of difficulty there are positives you can take and lessons you can learn.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I can honestly tell you, I can look at the things I did in high school, and I can see how they positively affect me today.

The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

Age is just a number when you possess real quality and a game plan.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

I feel sometimes as though I've never grown up. And that's great, because it means there are still possibilities. Nothing's free. You pay for whatever you get. But that's OK, because you can't be cheated.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.