Quotes About Wisdom

I've been in the mix of great projects for such a long time, I know what it takes.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

It sucks getting old.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there's a bit of suffering along the way.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.