Quotes About Wisdom

True faith depends not only on God's power but also on His wisdom.

When hard reason fails, leave it to the poets.

academic or material advancement does not necessarily confer wisdom. As someone rightly quipped, "It may be a smartphone, but it is not a wise phone.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

La fe que la Biblia enseña no se opone a la razón.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

wrongdoing has a way of robbing one even of common sense. Why

Comprometer su vida, hábitos, pensamientos, metas, prioridades, todo, a un cierto grupo de creencias sin primero hacer preguntas y recibir respuestas, es edificar su vida sobre un fundamento frágil.

The part of you that thinks of itself as human, is not human - (Maharaj Nisargadatta)

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

We're all fools, said Clemens, all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

Libraries raised me.

A book is a loaded gun.

The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth