Quotes About Wisdom

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

The life of doctrine is in application.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

There's no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.