Quotes About Wisdom

Everything depends on knowing how much {and} Good is knowing when to stop.

She knew from personal experience how hard loving was, how selfish and how easily sundered. Withholding sex or relying on it, ignoring children or devouring them, rerouting true feelings or locking them out. Youth being the excuse for that fortune-cookie love—until it wasn't, until it became pure adult stupidity.

I ain't. Keeps him dumb. He wouldn't know a good woman from a snake and he won't let nobody point out the difference.

Well, now. That's something you will have - a broken heart. Railroad Tommy's eyes softened, but the merriment in them died suddenly. And folly. A whole lot of folly. You can count on it.

If scientific language is about longer individual life in exchange for an ethical one; if political agenda is the xenophobic protection of a few of our families against the catastrophic others; if religious language is discredited as contempt for the nonreligious; if secular language bridles in fear of the sacred; if market language is merely an excuse for inciting greed; if the future of knowledge is not wisdom but "upgrade," where might we look for humanity's own future?

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes—a purée of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

Ä°nsan hayallerin nas?l suya düÅŸtüÄŸüne iliÅŸkin hakikati öÄŸrenmenin peÅŸindeyse eÄŸer, asla bir hayalperestin sözüne inanmamal?d?r.

If you know how to tread, bottomlessness need not concern you.

A person's love is only as good as the person; a stupid person loves stupidly, a violent man loves violently.

Eran lo bastante viejas para encolerizarse donde y cuando quisieran, estaban lo bastante fatigadas para esperar sin angustia la muerte, lo bastante desvinculadas de la carne para aceptar la noción de dolor a la vez que ignoraban su presencia. Eran, de hecho y al fin, libres.

Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.

Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).

The best way to avoid meaningless repetition is to continue getting to know God. The better you know a person, the more the two of you have to discuss. Whenever you learn something new about our great God, include that in your prayer life.

Kingdom women obey God's Word even when it seems to make no sense. Keep in mind that faith doesn't always make sense. But it does make miracles.

A healthy fear of the Lord keeps us from forgetting who we are and who He is.

doing life God's way is the secret to healing and freedom from the trappings that often weigh us down.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.

God's Word is perfect, ever relevant, speaking to all issues, for all of life.  

Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done, he said, She doesn't need you anymore.

mad monk, minus the spiritual insight.

The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

No basta, a fin de cuentas, con «matar al padre»: también es preciso comprenderlo. De lo contrario, en el peor de los casos, uno se arriesga a repetir sus mismos errores. Salvo

don't spend money on high-end equipment before you gain the experience and learn to plan a shot.

And she envied Caleb's knowledge. She only had bits and pieces, scraps and rags. He had a whole cloth.