Quotes About Wisdom

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time." - Seneca "Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.