Quotes About Wisdom

This is no time to make new enemies.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

A word in season is most precious.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Life is a game; so we should know very well how to play it.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.