Quotes About Wisdom

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen. Dobbiamo sapere, sapremo.

How can I survive without a book to read?

What is ahead of us? Like Pascal, we don't know. "Believers and non-believers stand in the same darkness. Neither sees God." Therefore like Pascal we should wager on life. We should bear ourselves in this world as though we have seen God, be kind to each other, love wisely, and give to our children what we would have wished for ourselves.

The Book of Proverbs contains a warning that speaks to us in our uncertain state: "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."14 Those who believe they are changing the world, or saving the planet, or transforming the human race, are intoxicated with self-aggrandizing pride. As secular "redeemers," a haughty spirit is their second nature. Consequently, they are deaf to this biblical wisdom.

But all our wisdom had been vanity. I could no longer feel superior to

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the biblical warning of Ecclesiastes: "In much knowledge is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Idealism kills," the philosopher Nietzsche had warned

Maybe everyone was part con man. Maybe everybody was in the game, and Phil just knew better than anyone else how to play.

that was the thing about nature: make one lousy rule to describe it and it'll contradict you even if it has to transmogrify and metamorphosize and bust its ass to do it. and so what? if anybody grew wise enough to grasp the real immutable laws of nature, nature'd only rear back and strike 'em dead before they got anybody to understand them

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

an eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.

Hmm. I'd never thought of that. Papa knew things I couldn't possibly know. He was in his thirties. He was old.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

All we have to do is ask and He will give us the wisdom that we need to get through the storm.

question the ways of the almighty God? To face God is to be humbled. With humility comes wisdom; with wisdom comes the strength to wait upon the Lord.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

PROVE RBS 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

He desires for us to understand His plans.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts," John Wooden once said.

The Bible is written for the rough realities of life, the nitty-gritty of the here and now.

Do not expect to master the Bible in a day, or a month, or a year. Rather expect often to be puzzled by its contents. It is not all equally clear. Great men of God often feel like absolute novices when they read the Word. The apostle Peter said that there were some things hard to understand in the epistles of Paul (2

The point is that we know them by their message and their fruit, not by their gifts (Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Matthew 7:15-23)."[56]

man of faith is a stable man looking in only one direction for the wisdom he needs. He knows that the God to whom he prays is able and willing to respond to his need. As