Quotes About Wisdom

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

and Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men" (Luke 2:52),

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" and "A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

I've since deduced that it's always a trap when you don't get to eat until after you hear the talk.

Stoicism is a logical philosophy.

I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Education isn't about teaching people what to think, which is how we have spent a lot of church time, but to help them learn how to think and respond appropriately in real time in continuity with the script-ure.

Habla cuando estés furioso y harás el mejor discurso que tengas que lamentar.

In the end, there is no substitute for clear thinking, logic, and common sense.... A better path to enlightenment involves reading and thinking for yourself.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

The wise interpreter allows his knowledge of genres to control how he approaches each biblical passage. In this way, he can accurately determine what the biblical author was intending to communicate to the reader.

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.

You can't fix stupid!

We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid!

There is no cure for stupid.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.