Quotes About Wisdom

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.