Quotes About Wisdom

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

So I've seen life as one long learning process.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Life is the soul's nursery.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.