Quotes About Wisdom

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

All of life is a constant education.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you'll have a wonderful time doing it.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most. It is extraordinary to discover that comparatively few people reach this level of maturity. They seem never to have paused to consider what has value for them. They spend great effort and sometimes make great sacrifices for values that, fundamentally, meet no real needs of their own.... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and what we have to offer it. The rewards for each age are different in kind, but they are not necessarily different in value or in satisfaction.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time.

Nearly every one of us, at some time or other, thinks what a great waste and pity it is that the older generation cannot teach the younger generation, cannot share their experiences, cannot save the young their mistakes; that each human being has to learn by his own experience and his own mistakes. And yet it is possible that this is the best way.

It is, however, the better part of wisdom to regard the mistake as experience which will help guide you in the future, a part, though a painful part, of your education.

Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading.

There is no experience from which you can't learn something.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and we have to offer it.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself. The learning process must go on as long as we live.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.