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Quotes About Wisdom

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
~ Mark Wahlberg
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
~ Alex Trebek
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
~ Aristotle
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
~ Zoroaster
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
~ Hosea Ballou
My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.
~ Idris Elba
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
~ Isamu Noguchi
To be successful in life what you need is education.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
~ Confucius
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
~ Dogen
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.
~ Ruth Simmons
Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.
~ Wayne Teasdale
The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.
~ Albert Einstein
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
~ Khalil Gibran
Life experience is priceless.
~ Amanda Seyfried
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.
~ Bruce Lee
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Knowledge is Life with wings
~ William Blake
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
~ Cyril Connolly
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
~ Dogen
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
~ V. S. Naipaul