Quotes About Wisdom

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey.

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.