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Quotes About Wisdom

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
~ Jules Renard
If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.
~ Julia Sweeney
Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!
~ Julia Ward Howe
Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
~ Kate Mara
I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.
~ Kurupt
He who thinks little errs much.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.
~ Malcolm X
An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world
~ Mark Shuttleworth
If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
~ Charlie Munger
Be superior to pleasure.
~ Cleobulus
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
~ Confucius
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.
~ David Hume
It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.
~ Drew Brees
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
I had enough brain to live a stupid life.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
The Greek word for sinning means to 'miss the point;' The point is eternal life which is here and now.
~ Alan Watts
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
~ Ann Landers
Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
~ Bernie Siegel
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
~ Billy Graham
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
~ Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
~ Carl Jung
People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.
~ Georges Doriot
Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
~ Havelock Ellis