Quotes About Wisdom

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.

Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Your whole life informs your eye.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Life is long if it is full.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.