Quotes About Wisdom

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Truthless times need timeless truths.

During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.