Quotes About Wisdom

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.