Quotes About Wisdom

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Live and learn and pass it on.

I've learned that when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with experience.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 689

Don't pray only for things; pray also for wisdom and courage. And never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing

For him knowledge did not describe; it acted and accomplished.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk [What Libraries Can (Still) Do, The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight

the less you know the less lies you will tell

I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.

But I was beginning to realise that life was not a tidy little parcel at any time.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

First job I had to do was pass the stomach tube on a horse. Got it into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. Couple of quick pumps and down went the horse with a hell of a crash—dead as a hammer. That's when I started these grey hairs.

All tall trees are wise, according to the West African teacher Malidoma Somé, because their movement is imperceptible, the connection between above and below so firm, their physical presence so generously useful.

One of the goals of alchemists was to concoct the "elixir," a panacea that would heal all ills and prolong all lives. This miraculous substance had many names, the most inclusive being lapis philosophorum, philosophers' stone.

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