Quotes About Wisdom

The biggest choice for me was surrendering the need to understand.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother. Somehow, some way, Mother always finds out that you are lying. When she does, there is hell to pay!

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

The Apostle] Paul's prayer for the Christians at Colosse should always be on our lips: That God fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding (Colossians 1:9).

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.'   If

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.

People, she thought, could be unbelievably stupid.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. —Frank A. Clark

When things change, the wise adjust.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

How do people know that stuff? Why do people know that stuff?" "Science," Peabody said. "You can't live without it.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. —HENRY ADAMS

No, prudent people didn't leave their feelings hanging out; didn't leave themselves vulnerable.

It's just a promise, that's all. A promise, and you do your best not to break it. Like a lease. There you go! You know, Dallas, that's almost wise.

I'm not stupid." No, Eve thought, you redefine the word.

Mavis dated this guy for a while back in the day who looked like one of those garden gnomes. She said he went at it like a rabid mink. Don't trust appearances

She shrugged. "I could write a book of sayings that should actually be sayings if people didn't keep killing each other.