Quotes About Wisdom

The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Norman Vincent Peale

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.

In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. Carry this with you on your journey, he said softly, for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

A wise man's words are rarely questioned," he counselled gently. "Therefore you must be very careful whom you call wise.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars. Therefore, let both kingdoms live in peace.

and, most of all, of how much could be accomplished with just a little thought.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.