Quotes About Wisdom

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.