Quotes About Wisdom

Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Life is too short to read a bad book.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.