Quotes About Wisdom

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.