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Quotes About Wisdom

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
~ Jack Nicklaus
I consider myself a student of life.
~ Jacob Vargas
Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.
~ Jalaja Bonheim
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
~ James A. Baldwin
Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time.
~ James Redfield
We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
~ Jay Hernandez
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.
~ Jeremy Collier
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
~ Jessica Lange
It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.
~ Jim Cymbala
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.
~ Jim Stovall
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
~ John Barrymore
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
~ John Burroughs
The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'
~ Carol Tavris
It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
~ Carrie Fisher
I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
~ Cathy Freeman
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
~ Charles Dickens
There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.
~ Charles Francis Richter
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
~ Charles Lederer
I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!
~ Charles M. Schulz