Quotes About Wisdom

they only trusted the wisdom of people brighter and more worldly than themselves when it was expressed in the vocabulary and style of rural idiots. In his guise as Brazenydol, he had once had a contract with DARPA to teach a team of physicists the basic terminology of tractor pulls so that they could give an acceptable explanation of omniwavelength stealth to a Congressional committee that didn't understand tractor pulls, either.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

God had already made me realise that His mercy does not grow weary of waiting for some souls and that He enlightens them only slowly. So I took good care not to anticipate Him.

For a long time I'd been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as I hadn't discovered the treasures of the Gospels. I knew every chapter by heart. I was never without this little book.

The professor believed in thought. He was always telling his students that you could get to the unknown by using the known. If you just put the facts that you knew together in the proper way, you might get some truly amazing results.

I learned that spell fifty years ago,' he mumbled as he lit his pipe. 'And I still don't know what it's for.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.

Most people, she said, can't stand the truth. It's too bad but there it is, most people can't stand it.

The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.

To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Everything is just a mess, Friend, be clever! Fifty years from now Other people will be alive.

Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools.

Therefore the yogic adept achieves his goal not by imploring the Tao to favour him but by learning to accommodate himself to its harmonious workings.