Quotes About Wisdom

Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.