Quotes About Wisdom

The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.

If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening" so your life will stay fresh.

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.

The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.