Quotes About Wisdom

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

If you live the questions, life will move you into answers.

Finding the hidden dimensions of your life is the way to fulfill your deepest hunger.

That's what's good about life - that you always learn.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Reality trumps rationality.

An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

My life has been very full.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.