Quotes About Wisdom

When you're really young, you're young for life.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.