Quotes About Wisdom

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

All I know is that I do not know anything

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.