Clarence Darrow Quotes

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family.

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.