Quotes About Wisdom

Woke up being extra thankful for the knowledge to pray!. Without that my life would be in shambles right now.

Be Thankful for all things in life. Even for the bad things. SOMETIMES the worst situations in life turn out to be the best things that ever happened to us.

Be thankful for what you have as well as what you don't have. Focus on the many things the Lord has given you rather on what He in His wisdom, has chosen to withhold from you.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.

Experience is a continuous process which makes one wiser & wiser after one is subjected to honest commitment to his endeavor. It is honesty in commitment which gives the wing of experience which writes ones success story.

Truth has two sides it is better we look at both before we commit ourself to either.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.

I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people — for human nature was the same all the world over; there was so much bad in the good and so much good in the bad, that it was all a matter of weighing up how much good or bad had been allotted to each one.

So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good...

Never take anything for granted, Miss Jessie. If you do you might lose it. If it's worth cherishing, cherish it.

You spent your lie preparing revenge. You should've spent it seeking happiness.

God revealed in the flesh," the God-human Jesus Christ, that is the holy mystery, which theology was instituted to preserve and protect. What foolishness, as if it were the task of theology to decode God's mystery, pulling it down to the commonplace, miracle-less words of wisdom based on human experience and reason! Whereas this alone is its charge—to keep the miracle of God a miracle, to comprehend, defend, and exalt the mystery of God, precisely as mystery.

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

Some knowledge comes to us like a seed.... Then, we have to bury it and leave it alone in the dark. When it's time, it comes up again and grows.

The spirits of our ancestors are all around us, Emmalehua. They speak to us in the rustle of the leaves, the whisper of the wind, and the song of the sea. We must listen to their wisdom, and let it guide us on our journey. For they are the keepers of our history, the guardians of our culture, and the inspiration for our future. We must honor them, respect them, and carry their legacy forward, so that their voices may be heard for generations to come." (Kneubuhl 89)

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

I could live without television, but not without books.

I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.

Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?" my mother demanded. "Or the kind who fights to find out what something's really worth?

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both. At