Quotes About Wisdom

A husband must be hard in order to take on masculine responsibility. A husband must be soft in order to avoid crushing those for whom he is responsible. Maintaining these twin imperatives in balance requires great wisdom, far more than men may have apart from the grace of God.

Held the right way, narrow truths create the broadest of hearts

How can an unexamined piety differ from the blind gropings of the fool? What is the hallmark of wisdom in this fallen world? The answer is joy at the end of the tether. But before we can learn joy at the end of the tether, we must learn the strength of that tether. The Lord is God and we are not.

your readings are the trees where your fallen leaves would come from. Mind mulch. Cognitive compost.

If you have told twenty-eight people this week that "he missed his nap today" as an excuse for his disobedience, then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate. We all know there are times when this is not an excuse but a reasonable explanation. But if you find yourself resorting to excuses all the time, then you are just trying to get people to overlook your lack of wisdom and discipline.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

When the parent is qualified to discipline, he probably does not feel like it, and when he feels like it, he is probably not qualified.

What happens when we grow up? (We may try to put away childish things, but we can't, or shouldn't. The best thing that can happen is that we turn those things into something bigger and more beautiful.)

There's a willow tree that stands by my river She holds me in her arms when I am cold. And we listen to the sounds Of the pebbles on the ground, And I know what it means to be old.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

So listening carefully is what I was taught all my life. When people don't listen, it's not that they don't learn, they just deny themselves tremendous opportunities and glorious choices." Steven Spielberg

on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture [the Tauraat (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?

The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more places you will go.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

A Chinese proverb goes: "We do not live for a hundred years but worry enough for a thousand" (Char, 1970, p. 15).

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

MAKING WISE DECISIONS: When GOD brings something to your mind-----Don't let it pass without dealing with it.

What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not know the truth.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.

We have judged God and found Him guilty of those things we do not understand.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

Power just means I can hurt you, and you can't hurt me back. That's not what you need from a ruler, even though it devolves into that from time to time. What you want is the kind of wisdom that illuminates the darkness.