Quotes About Wisdom

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

How should they answer?

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.

Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.