Quotes About Wisdom

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

Life is like a simile.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.

It is good to live and learn.

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.