Quotes About Wisdom

Life is too short to be lived badly.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

It's a lesson in life—don't look back, you'll trip over.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.