Quotes About Wisdom

All things are yours who are Christ's. He hath given life to be yours, hath given death also. He that hath given heaven for your inheritance—Paul and Cephas, his ministers and ordinances to help you thither—hath given the world with all the afflictions of it, yea, the prince of it too, with all his wrath and power, in order to the same end. This, indeed, is love and wisdom in a riddle, but you who have the Spirit of Christ can unfold it.

Therefore labour to be sound rather than brave Christians.

In order to the right conceiving of God, we must give him the infinitude of all his attributes; that is, conceive of him not only as wise—for that may be a man's name—but infinitely wise; not mighty, but almighty, &c.

He had read in it: "Only the unwise think that what has changed is dead." He had asked the teacher what it meant, and the teacher had said that if a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming.

Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding -- and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing.

Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time….. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief." On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

The Advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of liberty. "—James Madison.

A smart man learns from experience; a wise man learns from the experience of others.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

The mystic possesses his or her knowledge of God not from books or academic study, but from experience, from the experience of being loved intimately, intensely, by God.

The Noble Eightfold Path can be divided into three stages of training: s?la, sam?dhi, and paññ?. S?la is moral practice, abstention from all unwholesome actions of body and speech. Sam?dhi is the practice of concentration, developing the ability to consciously direct and control one's own mental processes. Paññ? is wisdom, the development of purifying insight into one's own nature.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.