Quotes About Wisdom

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

My 80s were the best years of my life!

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

I think when you experience things in your life, dealing with good and bad things, you just become stronger in so many ways.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.