Quotes About Wisdom

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Of two evils, choose neither.

There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.