Quotes About Wisdom

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

Old age is the verdict of life.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.