Quotes About Wisdom

we can learn only from our "betters." We must know who they are and how to learn from them.

S. Lewis, coined the phrase "The

The culture war is not just about abortion, homosexual rights, or the decline of public education. These are only the skirmishes. The real war is a cosmic struggle between worldviews-between the Christian worldview and the various secular and spiritual worldviews arrayed against it. This is what we must understand if we are going to be effective both in evangelizing our world today and in transforming it to reflect the wisdom of the Creator.

The greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves," He said.8

In a pluralistic society it is not only wrong but unwise for Christians to shake their Bibles and arrogantly assert that "God says . . ." That is the quickest way for Christians, a distinct minority in civil affairs, to lose their case altogether.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Enter to grow in wisdom.Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn't neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.

No mind was so good that it did not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and blindness and bigotry and folly.

Because then I might have known whether the light's in the sun or the sun's in the light.

He'd aged out of his role and into the next one, his life force depleting with every exertion. Wisdom and power leaking from him with each passing day and night. He'd played his role for so long he'd lost himself in it, before some separation that happened gradually over decades and then you waking one day to feel it, some distance that had crept in overnight. Some formal space you could no longer cross.

Time is a machine; it will convert your pain into experience.

The heart of the show, Black and White is 'dunt eat too much Chinese food.

Silence is the sovereign contempt.

It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

At 38, I look back at my 32-year-old self and regret that he wasted time. Then I regret wasting my current time regretting regrets about regrets. This is pretty sophisticated regretting I'm doing. That's the sole advantage of ageing: I can now effortlessly consolidate my regrets into one manageable block of misery. Otherwise, by the age of 44, I'd need complex database software just to keep track of precisely how many things I'm regretting at once.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART

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In the end, everything is a gag.

What they didn't realize is that it was my world they were getting ready to go out into. I had been making my way in it since before they were born and had some things to say about life after cutting the apron strings that could prove just as beneficial as anything they had gotten out of their books.

You had to speak softly and carry a big stick.