Quotes About Wisdom

God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

I want to have something substantial to say or I'm just not going to say anything.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

I am grateful to Allan Donald for his guidance and subtle nuances that he taught me.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Even the genius asks questions.

Even the genius ask questions.