Quotes About Wisdom

Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

I think Job and I understand each other better now. It was not the boils, but the free advice!

May God us keep From simple vision and Newton's sleep. —William Blake[xxvii]

Sometimes the best solution to a problem is active waiting. There is wisdom in allowing events to unfold in their own time.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toilO'er books consumed the midnight oil?

Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it.

Man may escape from rope and gun;Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill:Who takes a woman must be undone,That basilisk is sure to kill.The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets,So he that tastes woman, woman, woman,He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head...

you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...

why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much? Mark Twain ...that's why ...

what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...

you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

28.12 But where shall wisdom be found?....

God is faithful to all His promises, nor can He fail, or deceive; He is all wise and foreknowing of everything that comes to pass; He never changes His mind, nor forgets His word; and He is able to perform, and is the God of truth, and cannot lie; nor has He ever failed in any one of His promises, nor will He suffer [allow] His faithfulness to fail; and this is a strong argument to hold fast a profession of faith.

I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag's feet and asked her how to find love. She backhanded me in between verses of Whitney Houston and told me if she knew, why in fuck would she be here ?

You could drink the truth in its purity if you went to the source

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.