Quotes About Wisdom

I have considered myself a mature actor.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is it's important for us to know what we don't know.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Your mind is very powerful, and your soul knows what's best for you. So the more in contact you are with your soul, the more you know your path.

I read very little contemporary anything.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Education was not about consumption, but about contentment with less and less. This is what Buddha taught and this is what the Vedas say.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.

I do not enter any controversy.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

I believe that one has to be convinced with what they are doing, and I have got to learn from every opportunity that has come my way.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

If you've got someone fighting your corner, someone who loves you and you love, and is also really, really clever, the battle is so much easier.

We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.