Quotes About Wisdom

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

If you've ever been in a bar with a bunch of old sailors and see a guy that has an eagle tattooed across his chest, that guy has seen some stuff.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

If I had my time over I'd probably not get any tattoos.

I felt in college I wanted tattoos. I'm really glad I didn't. I was broke. I would've been bargain shopping for a tattoo artist.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.

O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

I think music made me who I am. Music taught me what was gutter and what wasn't. Music taught me how to live.