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Quotes About Wisdom

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
~ Baltasar Gracian
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.
~ Ben Bradlee
As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it.
~ Bill Maher
To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
~ Brian Aldiss
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
~ C. S. Lewis
Jim Rohn has been my favorite speaker for many years. He has changed my life for the better and can change yours too.
~ Roger Dawson
Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.
~ Rudy Wiebe
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
~ Salman Rushdie
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
~ Seneca the Younger
Time discovers truth.
~ Seneca the Younger
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
~ Sheila Heti
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.
~ Soko
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs
~ Solomon
Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.
~ Sophia Amoruso
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
~ Stephen Hawking
Probably death is the best invention of life.
~ Steve Jobs
You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.
~ Stevie Wonder
That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.
~ Tasha Smith
Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was.
~ Terry Pratchett
Adversity in life teaches you.
~ Tony Gonzalez
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
~ Tryon Edwards
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading is such a huge part of my life.
~ Veronica Roth