Quotes About Wisdom

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

Believing that your parents are always right.

Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

I've spent my life making blunders.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

They live ill who expect to live always.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

Your life informs your writing.

The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.