Quotes About Wisdom

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die

Wrinkles? They just tell the story of your life

Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter — content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Ps. 90:12 TLB).

Are you going to judge God by the circumstances you don't understand or judge the circumstances in the light of the character of God?

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

even if the older mind lives by remembering, the young mind lives by forgetting.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.

People who knew shit were invaluable in every organization, no matter how large, or how small.

She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. . . . Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).

When they speak, everything else stops. Nobody dares interrupt. Everyone sits looking rapt, hanging on these words of wisdom even while they are wondering what the flowing tirade really means. Clearly it is their own inadequacy if they are not transported into astounding inspiration by the demagogue's words of wisdom, so many words, so long in the delivery.… No one can leave.

Premature action alerts the opposition.

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

Nu avea niciun sens s? se simt? furios. Trebuie s? iei viaÈ›a aÈ™a cum e: stupid?, minunat?, inteligent?, rea, nebuneasc? È™i foarte, foarte pl?cut?. Trebuie s? accepÈ›i sl?biciunile oamenilor ca pe un dat, s? le iei în calcul È™i s? le foloseÈ™ti pentru cauza nobil?.

În el pulsa aversiunea profund? a omului înÈ›elept È™i omenos împotriva unui lucru atât de inutil, complet stupid È™i atavic precum r?zboiul. Dintre numeroasele jocuri stupide ale oamenilor, r?zboiul i se p?rea cel mai stupid È™i mai costisitor.

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

No, my fatalism is yet not as primitive as that. It is rather the logical outcome of unfortunate experiences with the consistent application of intelligence.

What I heard and saw was a charge to declare his Holy Word in all the wisdom of its counsel and wonder of its strength. It was an invitation to remake the human language in the image if the divine rather than strip the Word of God of its divinity to make it human.

words of the reckless pierce like swords,             but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1) How