Quotes About Wisdom

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.