Quotes About Wisdom

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.