Quotes About Wisdom

Health that mocks the doctor's rules,Knowledge never learned of schools.

O Time and change! -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

If ANYTHING is assumed to be other than bullshit, then there is something wrong with the perspective.

the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

Grinder's Whispering in the Wind.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.

Learning that flowered in days of yore In these our times is thought a bore. Once knowledge was a well to drink of; Now having fun is all men think of.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

In response, God appears to Job and compels him to live in mystery, not giving an answer to his suffering but asserting his own wisdom and power. Other

Alternatively we could suggest that Eliphaz gives most weight to his personal experiences, Bildad relies on the wisdom of the ages and Zophar is most inclined to find understanding in a system of thinking in which everything is black and white.

God's wisdom, not God's justice, forms the basis of God's activity in the world. Faith trusts that God is wise and that therefore his purposes are good, even if they don't seem that way to any system we can understand. God does not need to be defended; he wants to be trusted.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

Then let me tell you a thing I've learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I'd trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it?

Cedar," he said. "Pine. Spruce. Laurel." "Yeah. So?" "They're supposed to be sacred." He touched them again, each in turn. "Wisdom. Strength. Courage. Perseverance. You're supposed to burn them.

Love of wisdom [philosophy] the guide of life.

The wise leader does not make a show of holiness or pass out grades for good performance. That would create a climate of success and failure. Competition and jealousy follow.

A Good Group A good group is better than a spectacular group. When leaders become superstars, the teacher outshines the teaching. Very few superstars are down-to-earth. Fame breeds fame, and before long they get carried away with themselves. Then they fly off center and crash. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. The leader does not take all the credit for what happens and has no need for fame. A moderate ego demonstrates wisdom.

Knowing how polarities work, the wise leader does not push to make things happen, but allows process to unfold on its own. The leader teaches by example rather than by lecturing others on how they ought to be. The leader knows that constant interventions will block the group's process. The leader does not insist that things come out a certain way. The wise leader does not seek a lot of money or a lot of praise. Nevertheless, there is plenty of both.

The wise leader pays respectful attention to all behavior. Thus the group becomes open to more and more possibilities of behavior. People learn a great deal when they are open to everything and not just figuring out what pleases the teacher.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem [From shadows and symbols into the truth]!