Quotes About Wisdom

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

Failure is life's magnifying glass.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.