Quotes About Wisdom

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."51

Job once asked, "Can anyone teach God knowledge?" (Job 21:22). The obvious answer is no; no one can teach

Proverbs tells us, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy

Medieval learning was really advanced.

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

Grandma Vera said something I've treasured since: "If you read something often enough, no one can take it away from you." How

You must guard your mouth, because no matter what you say, you are launching weapons of one sort or another.

There are no good answers to bad questions,

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

Dessinunt odisse qui dessinunt ignorare (Dejan de odiar los que dejan de ignorar).

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.