Quotes About Wisdom

There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The thing about courage is it's something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It's not just in you, it's in every choice we make every day.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

If you have a Bible that's falling apart, you'll have a life that's not.

I regard myself as a woman who has seen much of life.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.