Quotes About Wisdom

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

Gratitude is present when you see that everything that occurs in your life can be used to show you how to live fully as a human being.