Quotes About Wisdom

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.