Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

A lie cannot live.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.