Quotes about Wisdom
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.
- Robert Kiyosaki
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
- Andrew Jackson
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
- Paulo Coelho
O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
- Abraham Lincoln
We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.
- Philip Yancey