Quotes About Wisdom

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it's best not to say anything.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Novels are longer than life.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.