Quotes About Wisdom

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Life's to short for chess.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.