Quotes About Wisdom

That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.

The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.