Quotes About Wisdom

Herbert George Jenkins

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

There are rich counsels in the trees.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Science is organised knowledge.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

God's will is one with his being, his wisdom, goodness, and all his other perfections. For that reason the human heart and head can rest in that will, for it is the will of an almighty God and a gracious father, not that of a blind fate, incalculable chance, or dark force of nature. His sovereignty is one of unlimited power, but also of wisdom and grace. He is both king and father at one and the same time.

The condition in which the pagan world dwells outside of the special revelation is portrayed in Holy Scripture as darkness, ignorance, self-invented wisdom, and great unrighteousness. The preaching that addresses them is thus a calling to come out of darkness into the light; it is an invitation to be converted from idols and to serve the living and true God.

Life often mocks every system; it is richer and fuller than the deepest thinker in all his wisdom can imagine.

Ik denk dat m'n engelbewaarder vervangen is door een collega met meer verstand van zaken.

Het is beter om de dingen niet te weten zonder dat je ze kent.

He who hesitates is lost. There is no real truth in that statement, of course. Any kind of a generalisation is more or less half-baked, including this one. Truth of necessity requires the exposition of both of two opposing points of view.