Quotes About Wisdom

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

Better to be happy than wise.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!

Men, in general, are but great great children.

Man is the measure of all things.

They asked Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.