Quotes About Wisdom

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

The experiences of life must be transformed into true comprehension.

Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.