Quotes About Wisdom

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.

Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still.