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Quotes About Wisdom

All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
~ Glenn Close
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
~ Horace
Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.
~ Jack Nicholson
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
~ Pema Chodron
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
~ Oscar Wilde
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.
~ Sri Chinmoy
What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The person lives twice who lives the first life well
~ Robert Herrick
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.
~ Rod Stryker
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
~ Sam Ewing
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
~ Samuel Butler
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
~ Samuel Smiles
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
~ Seneca the Younger
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
~ Seneca the Younger
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.
~ Sidney Poitier
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
~ Socrates
Be humble in this life.
~ Stephen I of Hungary
There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.
~ Steven Morrissey
What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
~ Susan Glaspell
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.
~ Theo Rossi
You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
~ Tom Hanks