Quotes About Wisdom

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

one should never assume anything

Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be totally stupid, in fact, but if you call them silly you've lost their vote.

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace. Grace is a little girl Who would not wash her face.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy.

Now the spotlight comes on and I'm saying to myself, 'Earvin, you don't play the game above the rim. You play it cerebrally. You play it in an intelligent way and just be who you are.

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

Pour vivre heureux, vivons incultes? Je dis non! Vivre heureux, je m'en fous!

Erfahrung ist die Summe der Dummheiten, die man im Bedarfsfall wieder anwendet." [ ARD Morgenmagazin , May 2002]

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Den größten Fehler, den man im Leben machen kann, ist, immer Angst zu haben, einen Fehler zu machen.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions; for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

The idea that we could have avoided many of life's difficulties if we had taken things more cautiously is too foolish to be entertained for a moment. As I look back on your past I am so convinced that what has happened hitherto has been right, that I feel that what is happening now is right too. To renounce a full life and its real joys in order to avoid pain is neither Christian nor human.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

Radicalism hates time. Compromise hates eternity. Radicalism hates patience. Compromise hates decision. Radicalism hates wisdom. Compromise hates simplicity. Radicalism hates measure. Compromise hates the immeasurable.

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest.

But who in this day has any proper understanding of the need for scriptural proof? How often we hear innumerable arguments 'from life' and 'from experience' put forward as the basis for most crucial decisions, but

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.