Quotes About Wisdom

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

The discourse of fools is irksome.

The wise still seek Him.

For the very true beginning of her [wisdom] is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love.

Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.He that loveth her loveth life.

Answer a fool according to his folly.

Let the counsel of thine own heart stand.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.

Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense.

Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Old and stricken in years.

Shall any teach God knowledge?

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me.

Mother-in-law: a woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.