Quotes About Wisdom

I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

I learn life from the poets.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

Live deep instead of fast.

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.