Quotes About Wisdom

Delay is preferable to error.

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

We have deep depth.

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

I gave up at the right time, scoring a goal against Derby. I didn't hear anybody shouting, 'Please stop, you are getting too old.' That's a success. And I don't want to come back for the sake of it.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Character is destiny.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has developed a little bit.

The older you get, the better you get. The key is just keeping the body up with the mind. The mind keeps developing when the body is breaking down.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.