Quotes About Wisdom

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Horses and life, it's all the same to me.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Old age is life's parody.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.