Quotes About Wisdom

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

Great souls are harmonious.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Living the 'easy' life today seems to make a 'difficult' life tomorrow.

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life's lessons.

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

Life is the great teacher.

It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'