Quotes About Wisdom

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us