Quotes About Wisdom

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.