Quotes About Wisdom

The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

When we talk to ourselves, we're not talking to anyone very smart, because our outlook is very limited. But if we talk to God, we're talking to someone who knows everything. He knows what he promised in the beginning, and he knows exactly how to fulfill those promises no matter the circumstances.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.

At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.

Every time we replace anger with empathy and caring, we help a child become better prepared to make wise decisions.

These parents are making daily deposits into Sammy's wisdom account that are going to help Sammy—when he's a teenager and throughout his life.

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

Animals, Huss felt, could teach us a lot about how to live if we paid attention to them. She had chosen to pay attention.

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey. As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

Mentorship is the greatest level of leadership maturity there is.

Everyone is entitled to be foolish sometimes, but many people abuse the privilege.

I believe, as I am sure you believe, that eventually everything is known. Eventually it will become to somebody's interest to tell. Secrets are like meat; they can be frozen or eaten but not kept.

Take Proverbs 16:32, for example: 'He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.

Jump ahead to the end of your life. What are the three most important lessons you have learned and why are they so critical? • Think of someone that you deeply respect. Describe three qualities in this person that you most admire. • Who are you at your best? • What one-sentence inscription would you like to see on your tombstone that would capture who you really were in your life?