Quotes About Wisdom

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

The true man breathes with his heels.