Quotes About Wisdom

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.