Quotes About Wisdom

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Someone once said, 'God is simple, all else is complex.' The more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more beautiful your life becomes.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Listen to the song of life.

Life begins at eighty.

If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

God's words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God's words lead to life.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

There is no perfection only life

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.