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Quotes About Wisdom

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
~ Wilkie Collins
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.
~ Frederick Lenz
In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
~ Garrison Keillor
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.
~ George Clooney
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
~ George Santayana
It is the acme of life to understand life.
~ George Santayana
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
~ George Whitman
See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?
~ Guy Finley
Share your knowledge and you become immortal.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
~ Helene Hanff
God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.
~ Henry Blackaby
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
~ Holly Near
There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
~ Jack Kevorkian
I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.
~ Jack Klugman
If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness
~ Janet Thompson
He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.
~ Jean-Pierre Camus
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
~ Jeanette Winterson
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
~ Joanna Trollope