Quotes About Wisdom

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The more I see, the less I know.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Those things in life that matter will give you pain as you learn to understand life.

If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.

Labor is life; thought is light.

You never know, life is short but it's wide

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.