Quotes About Wisdom

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

All my life I wanted somebody who knew more than I did to tell me the truth.

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.