Quotes About Wisdom

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

I used everything you gave me.

The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

I wondered about the half-life of regret.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.