Quotes About Wisdom

Unuttuklar?n?z için harcad???n?z uzun saatlere de üzülmemelisiniz, çünkü yitirilen bilginin gölgesi sizi en az?ndan birçok yan?lsamadan korur. (William Johnson Cory)

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. -Henry Stevens (Posted on Twitter by @FSG_Books Farrar,Straus&Giroux

By ignorance the truth is known.

One should not judge pleasure according to the senses. One should judge it according to truth. . . . The power to renounce gives one more power than to possess things." ? Henry Suso, Henry Suso: The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons

I recognize that there are times in God's divine will and infinite wisdom that He chooses not to heal or to protect from harm. It was out of my love relationship with God that I was able to trust Him to walk with me through the situation, regardless of how it turned out.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Age is opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.