Quotes About Wisdom

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

I have always come to life after coming to books.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

Life in its highest state is understanding.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

A life well used procures a happy death.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

History is the teacher of life

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.