Quotes About Wisdom

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The facts of life are conservative.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.