W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I'm never embarrassed to say, 'I don't know.'

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.