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Quotes About Wisdom

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
~ Ronnie James Dio
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
~ Bruce Lee
The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.
~ Michael Josephson
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is our dictionary.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something
~ Rick Warren
There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
~ Roger Deakins
Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.
~ Seymour Hersh
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~ Sophia Loren
We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.
~ Steve Gleason
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
~ Baruch Spinoza
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
~ Cato the Elder
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
~ Conway Twitty
Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.
~ Douglas Pagels
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
~ Elie Wiesel
She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.
~ Gautama Buddha
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
~ Gautama Buddha
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
~ George Carlin
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
~ Henry Van Dyke
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!
~ James Altucher