Quotes About Wisdom

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

This life is a process of learning.

My life is better with every year of living it.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!