Quotes About Wisdom

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.

Horses don't live thirty years,

Holy' is a word used to conceal a great deal of nonsense," Blasphet said. "If we disregard the evidence of our senses, won't that lead to madness?

And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

His eyes had seen it all. He was 24 years old.

My fate is my own; my heart remains free Not magic but wisdum reveals destiny.

my fate is my own, my heart remains free, not magic but wisdom reveals destiny

As Edward Albee put it neatly in his play The Zoo Story (1958): What I am going to tell you has something to do with how sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly….

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise."

The secular church is one dominated by the world, as much of the contemporary church is. It is characterized by the world's wisdom, the world's theology, the world's agenda, and the world's methods. The evangelical church, when it is secular, is one that seeks to do God's work but in the world's way. It looks to the media and money rather than to God and His power, which is unleashed through prayer.

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Though infinite players are strong, they are not powerful and do not attempt to become powerful.

When we forget that knowledge rises from ignorance and think of it instead as a way of overcoming ignorance, knowledge can have the ironic effect of limiting our vision.

But what resounds most deeply in the life of Copernicus is the journey that made knowledge possible and not the knowledge that made the journey successful.

We don't come smart out of the box.

Ms. Gleason kept us hopping on Tuesday. No, she didn't give us pogo sticks. But I learned so much that my head grew two hat sizes.