Quotes About Wisdom

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Thought is the measure of life.

I think you're never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.