Quotes About Wisdom

You don't go through life, you grow through life

You had life by the tail and didn't know it.

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't think you can go wrong.

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!

Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.