Quotes About Wisdom

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

The warrior of light listens to what his opponent has to say. He only fights if absolutely necessary.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The business of books is the business of life.

Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.