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Quotes About Wisdom

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life without learning is death.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
~ Marie Dressler
Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.
~ Mario Batali
One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning." Memoir From Antproof Case
~ Mark Helprin
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
~ Mark Twain
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
~ Mark Twain
Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
~ Martin Luther
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short
~ Charles Kennedy
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Plato
Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
~ Viggo Mortensen
All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.
~ Maya Angelou
The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
~ Mell Lazarus
That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
~ Michel de Montaigne
What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
~ Nancy Reagan
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb