Quotes About Wisdom

Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

Dad, I'm not at all sure I can follow you any longer in your simple Christian faith' stated the clergyman's son when he returned from the university for holidays with a fledgling scholar's assured arrogance. The father's black eyes skewered his son, who was 'lost,' as C.S. Lewis put it 'in the invincible ignorance of his intellect.' 'Son,' the father said, 'That is your freedom, your terrible freedom.

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, "What a lot of things a man doesn't need!

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. HENRI NOUWEN, THE WOUNDED HEALER

Mi corazón no es orgulloso, ni son altivos mis ojos; no busco grandezas desmedidas, ni proezas que excedan a mis fuerzas.

In the realm of spiritual transformation, the questions we are willing to ask ourselves are more important than the answers we think we know. At

Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

Heal our inner sight, O God, that we may know the difference between good and evil. Open our eyes that we may see what is true and what is false. Restore us to wisdom that we may be well in our souls, Restore us to wisdom that we and our world may be well.[2]

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

big stories love little words to fly around in

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

How young you are. When you attain my age you will understand one of life's great secrets: Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Time is different in an ancient place. Not slower, but somehow bigger, perhaps less transient.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Reading feeds the spirit.

Therefore, it is my belief that Blind Benny, even with his poor sightless eyes, is the only person I know who can see with perfect clarity. Because Benny is able to see beyond appearances.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

In my hometown, there are two brothers with contrary characters. One is clever and eloquent, the other is foolish and silent. The foolish one seems to have all the time in the world. The clever one is always busy depleting his life.

The Little King is nobody's fool, you're my fools.

The truth about insults: If somebody unjustly insults you it means nothing, except that maybe they're assholes, or maybe even they're incompetent, but if somebody justly insults you, then it means something.

Somehow, it seemed the Jedi had failed to grasp that the Force was grander and farther reaching than even they understood it to be.