Quotes about Wisdom
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
— Mark Twain
Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
— Zig Ziglar
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
— Elbert Hubbard
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
— Billy Graham
Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life
— Charlie Munger
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
— Epictetus
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
— John Calvin
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
— Euripides
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
— Elie Wiesel
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
— Maya Angelou
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
— Billy Graham