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Quotes About Wisdom

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.
~ Dustin Hoffman
You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
If there's one thing I've learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.
~ Elizabeth Reyes
It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
~ Esther Meynell
A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.
~ Francis Atterbury
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
~ Francoise Sagan
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
~ Frederick Lenz
Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.
~ Frederick Lenz
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
~ Maya Angelou
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.
~ Misty Upham
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation
~ Nhat Hanh
I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.
~ Nicolas Ghesquiere
In life, we all learn from everyone.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
~ Nicole Krauss
Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.
~ P. C. Cast
As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
~ Pam Grier
It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.
~ Paulo Coelho
Yesterday's pain is the Warrior of the Light's strength.
~ Paulo Coelho