Quotes About Wisdom

Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it.

The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

I've had an interesting life.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

Don't confuse facts with reality.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.