Quotes About Wisdom

Young twigs will bend but not old trees.

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.

He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.

The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context.

In seasons of harvest, there is a more urgent need for watchmen, as the "thief" is going to do all he can to steal it, keeping the greater portion. It is little wonder that God has preceded the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever known— which is now happening— with the greatest prayer awakening in history. The Lord of the harvest is wise. I can assure you He has 24- hour sentries "watching" the harvest.

We can all read a book and still not understand it.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Who knows but that all the men to whom reference has been made, and a multitude of others who lived in by-gone ages borrowed their wise sayings from the talk of the firesides and the conversations of the market places; so that the origin of many proverbs now flippantly quoted in the converse of men is lost in the mists of forgotten centuries.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Each story teaches him new tricks . . . brings him new tools, new techniques. Insight continually grows in him, and so does understanding. So, he improves as he goes along . . . seldom falls into the same trap twice.

Arbitrary rules restrict and inhibit you. Knowing why sets you free.

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.