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Quotes About Wisdom

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.
~ Francis Bacon
The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in life
~ David Oyedepo
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
~ Malcolm X
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~ William Arthur Ward
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.
~ Dalai Lama
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
~ Layne Staley
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
~ Abraham Maslow
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
~ Charles Bukowski
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.
~ Solomon
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
~ Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
~ Antisthenes
Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux
~ Erik Satie
Always desire to learn something useful
~ Sophocles
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
~ William Goldman
What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.
~ Joey Ramone
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.
~ Bob Marley
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
~ Walt Disney
The mind of the spirit will guide you in perfect ways, even in the minute details of your life, if you will let it do so.
~ Charles Fillmore
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
~ Socrates