Quotes About Wisdom

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.

All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

I let go usually by talking to many people in different areas, in different realms of life that make me look at what I'm dealing with as being small fries stuff, you know?

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

Overall, then, Aristotle just isn't as "sexy" as Plato. His only advantage is being right.

Myself when young did eagerly frequentDoctor and Saint, and heard great argumentAbout it and about: but evermoreCame out by the same door wherein I went.

Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone that is what I learn as I get old.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.