Omar Sharif Quotes

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Send a wise man and don't advise him. He should know what to do.

A wise man is better than a prophet.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

He was the smartest man I ever met.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

If you are a wise man, sitting in the council of your lord, direct your thought toward that which is wise. Be silent rather than scatter your words. When you speak, know that which can be brought against you. To speak in the council is an art, and speech is criticized more than any other labor; it is contradiction which puts it to the proof

I'm an unusual man. I know that.

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.

I was a real weird kid.

An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

I'm kind of a squirrely individual.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

I think I'm a smart guy who knows the game.

Tierra Whack is very wise.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.