Quotes About Wisdom

the site still radiated a powerful aura that whispered of past glories too ancient for me to comprehend.

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

never underestimate your dumbness!!

Okay, Dumb Diary, school has taught me a few things over the years. Once, it taught me the difference between alligators and crocodiles. (Even alligators and crocodiles don't really care. Just avoid both.)

Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time. Financial stability takes time. Effective ministry takes time. Wisdom takes time. People who are not willing to take time cannot have any of the above.

Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

The fact is that if the Christian home, church, and school have done their job well and the student has learned well, he may be one of the few on the earth who understand the real world.

The important lesson here is that wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outline of an old and worried face.

A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: "My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety" (Proverbs 11:14 NKJV).

I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin.

Librarians: Kicking Ignorance in the Balls for Over 4000 Years

The wise negotiator knows that only one person in a negotiation can feel okay, and that person is the adversary.

Creo que madurar no significa ser una persona seria, mucho menos aburrida, madurar es poder jugar, tontear, bromear, hacer sonreír como un niño, pero recordando nuestras responsabilidades, aceptar que ya no somos niños, pero sin olvidar que lo fuimos.

I'm just really a wise ass kid getting wiser and I'm going to get even somehow for your dumb hatreds and all them war baby dreams you left in my scarred bed with dreams of bombs falling above that cliff I'm hanging steady to.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

for how could anyone not know by now how mischievous the world could be?

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

It may not seem obvious at first glance, but the way we make decisions in life tells a lot about the kind of faith we have in Jesus Christ.