Quotes About Wisdom

Doctrine and Covenants 111:11: "Therefore, be ye as wise as serpents and yet without sin; and I will order all things for your good, as fast as ye are able to receive them.

We are too small, all but a few of us, to hold more than a little of the truth.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.

The simple fact is that selecting a mutual fund that will outpace the stock market over the long term is, using Cervantes' wonderful observation, like "looking for a needle in the haystack." So I offer you Bogle's corollary: "Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

It is dangerous ... to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experience.

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Why is Old Jack a better general than Moses?" was the question they liked to ask. "Because it took Moses forty years to lead the Israelites through the wilderness," the answer went, "and Old Jack would have double-quicked them through in three days."10

Is ignorance so hard to bear, then? There is so very much in life we do not know … .

We are men born in a land of eternal darkness. We grope where we cannot see clearly. Why mistrust what ancient books say? Why mistrust what our souls say? Our forefathers gave us this lamp, and the flame was lit in brighter days, when men saw further. I agree the lamp-light of such far-off lore, is dim for us; but surely that proves it to be folly, not wisdom, to cast the lamp aside: for then we are blind.

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Grant, Almighty God, since thou hast delivered to us a sure rule of worship, which cannot deceive us, and since thy Son became for us a perfect master of all wisdom and of solid piety, that we may obediently follow whatever he prescribes for us..."

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.

Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.

True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.