Quotes About Wisdom

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about.

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.