Quotes About Wisdom

REFLECTING ON THE MEANING

You are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. —1 CORINTHIANS 1:30

Focusing inward on our misery traps us in our own private dungeon, and we lock ourselves away from those richer interiors that provide the healing and wisdom we need.

Instead of getting what he wanted, he got what he needed—a deeper vision of God's grace and strength in his life.

Failure sucks, but instructs.

Orang-orang tahu bahwa terkadang pelajaran terbesar kita terletak pada rasa sakit yang paling menyakitkan.

America was being replaced by a new source of wisdom

My friends, I implore you to destroy the seeds of greed inside you. Greed will not help you grow wise and rich. Greed

It's not rocket surgery!

It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

And who am I to blow against the wind?

Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all

I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase "young adult" – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He's caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pretended that it was possible to love her when I only mildly liked her. Now I had no desire to pretend we'd ever be in love, and I liked her madly. 'Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?' I asked her. She laughed. 'You mean, can we share our fuckups and see if we can get any wisdom out of them?' 'Yeah,' I said. 'That would be nice.

I have always found peace among books.

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you.