Quotes About Wisdom

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.