Quotes About Wisdom

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

Everything you need to know about life is in one breath.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Emily Dickinson

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.