Quotes About Wisdom

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

It's always beneficial taking advice from Dhoni.

I realized that there is no fairy tale.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

I learned so much from Jane Lynch. She was the funniest and most talented person. She taught me so much about being a performer.

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

I had the chance to learn from some really talented people who have taught me a lot.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.