Quotes About Wisdom

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Don't waste your time on life.

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

The keys to life are running and reading.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.