Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.
Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
The wise speak only of what they know
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them.
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.
You can't just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
