Quotes About Wisdom

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

Life is not a tour of gas stations.

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way.

The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.