Quotes About Wisdom

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

But you grow more knowledgeable during the time you play in the Premier League. Every new manager, new chapter, has been a learning curve.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

Many older people I know are focused on the past. When they talk about the future, they are, quite understandably, preoccupied with the hassles and obstacles of their increasing age.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

It is always good to be away with a few of the older lads because you pick up so much from them every day. You see how they prepare for games, how they rest, and how they train.

This is something that I think has been going on for before I played football - just kind of guys sitting down with some of the younger guys to prepare them for what they'll be faced with.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Every year that I have under my belt, I'm a lot more confident and a lot more prepared for the challenges of being a manager.

Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

Remember the past, live the present, think a little less about the future.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

I say throwaway, jokey things. When you're young-looking and you are presenting something that has gravitas you can't look down your nose, but when David Dimbleby does it, it's OK.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.