Quotes About Wisdom

It is better to live than lie dead. A dead man gathers no goods. Hávamál

The unwise man is awake all night, and ponders everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is a burden as ever. Hávamál

One may know your secret never a second. If three, a thousand will know.

Be your friend's true friend, to him and his friends, Thorgrim recalled the old saying. Beware of befriending an enemy's friend.

The first work of revealed truth is to secure an unconditional surrender of the sinner to the will of God. Until this has been accomplished, nothing really lasting has been done at all. The reader may admire the rich imagery of the Bible, its bold figures and impassioned flights of eloquence; he may enjoy its tender musical passages, and revel in its strong homely wisdom; but until he has submitted to its full authority over his life, he has secured no good from it yet.

Likewise a poet.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.

This was one of those occasions when discretion was the better part of not getting your face bashed in.

But sometimes there's a moral rightness in stupidity. Ever hear of a holy fool?

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group, where relationships with the rest of the animate and inanimate world are still given due place.

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

If one makes himself master of one vital book, he shall never become a commonplace man.

Sometimes it's more painful to know the truth than not to know it." -Han Solo

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Great books make great readers,129 and exposure to lofty thoughts is a challenging and inspiring experience. Loftier thoughts than Isaiah's, recorded in chapters 40–66 of his prophecy, are scarcely to be found.

There is a difference between seeking to know things for the sake of knowledge itself and being willing to undergo renunciation to be possessed by the truth.

There is certainly a place for the college and the clinic, but really, do we need a Ph.D. in motherhood or a master's degree in friendship?

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

If God really did write a book, we ought to be reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and letting it guide our lives.