Quotes About Wisdom

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then

A hard life improves the vision.

See into life, don't just look at it

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.