Quotes About Wisdom

I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Any experience you go through, you take something away from it, and I've always taken more from the harder times.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.