Quotes About Wisdom

Real readers re-read good books.

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so. —Artemus Ward

As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

Jesusanity is a coined term for the alternative story about Jesus. Here the center of the story is still Jesus, but Jesus as either a prophet or a teacher of religious wisdom. In Jesusanity, Jesus remains very much Jesus of Nazareth. He points the way to God and leads people into a journey with God. His role is primarily one of teacher, guide, and example.

When Jesus is made a social revolutionary or a prophet of wisdom, the relationship of creature to Creator is basically reduced to an ethical call that Jesus is said to give people so that they respond to

Darrell L. Bock

In Jesusanity, with the exception of Sanders, Jesus is more about wisdom and society than about the full political and spiritual deliverance Israel's prophets once preached.

If you don't know it, don't write it.

Anyone claiming to be perfect at what they do is proof they don't know what the hell they're doing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

Genius has its limitations. Insanity, not so much.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

What would it take to interpret the present time? A discerning heart and the ability to see the bigger picture outside of ourselves.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

she could recall her father telling her when she kept putting off unpleasant chores that she should always shoot the biggest wolf first. After that, the rest were less scary.

La sagesse procurait rarement des réponses, elle se contentait de redéfinir les questions.

Brota soupira et décida de ne pas se mêler de cette affaire. Quand les hommes se comportent comme des enfants, les femmes doivent se tenir à l'écart. —

Emshandar's problems were his fault. He who wakes the dog must bear the bite, his mother had always said.

il valait mieux prévenir que guérir.