Quotes About Wisdom

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

The secret of life is... everything is out of control.

I don't regret any of the decisions I've made in my life. Because with every choice I've made, I've learned something new.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

I've been a barbarian my whole life. I'm just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life.

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.