Quotes About Wisdom

Life is a kind of chess.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

No concept is a carrier of life.

Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

I prefer the school of life.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.