Wisdom of life Quotes

“The most important wisdom of life is to have the eagerness to gain wisdom.”

“The riskiest yet rewarding thing is to paint in our head of how our life is going to be.”

“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”

“Self consciousness is the ultimate wisdom of life.”

“What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.”

“People have a courage to die, but don't have a courage to live.”

“He said he'll be there. And he did. Stuff like this is so rare.”

“No matter how much you nourish, the flower blossoms in its own time. Just like people.”

“On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many people will wish that similar things had happened in their lives too, completely forgetting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent those events the significance they possess when he describes them ; to a man of genius they were interesting adventures; but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences.This is, in the highest degree, the case with many of Goethe's and Byron's poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of fantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful.”