Quotes About Wisdom

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

There's a time to be brave and a time to cave...If you know something is the right thing to do, even if you're scared, do it anyway. But if doing it puts you in immediate danger run away fast. I trust you to know the difference.

Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.

Spare not, nor spend too much, be this thy care, Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Who spends too much may want, and so complain; But he spends best that spares to spend again.

I admit I did say so and I admit that it was a very stupid thing to have said. I said a lot of stupid things when I was in the Conservative Party, and I left them because I did not want to go on saying stupid things.

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power" (1 Corinthians 2: 4). In the same letter he wrote, "For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power," and he speaks of the Holy Spirit giving "the working of miracles" (1 Corinthians 4: 20; 12: 10).

To grow old is to grow remorseful.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Apprentices work furiously to learn the rules; journeymen proudly perfect the rules; but masters forget the rules.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Never make a decision until you have to.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.

You don't beat the grim reaper by living longer; you beat the grim reaper by living better.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

In the fifty years my parents were married, in the thousands of conversations my dad had with me, it had just never come up. And so there I was, weeks after his death, getting another lesson from him about the meaning of sacrifice—and about the power of humility

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can't help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

La experiencia es lo que te queda cuando no consigues lo que querías.

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.

It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)

The second kind of head fake is the really important one—the one that teaches people things they don't realize they're learning until well into the process.