Quotes About Wisdom

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life