Quotes About Wisdom

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus [never tickle a sleeping dragon]

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Time is making fools of us again.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Near as I can figure, living has always been the primary cause of dying, and the sooner we all accept that simple truth, the better off we'll be." Well,

May you derive great benefit from engaging in this programme and its invitation to explore how you might be in a wiser and more fulfilling relationship to your 'one wild and precious life.' Jon Kabat-Zinn Boston, Massachusetts December, 2010

Meditation is not about accepting the unacceptable. It is about seeing the world with greater clarity so that you can take wiser and more considered action to change those things that need to be changed.

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it!

our civilization is very young. None of us live long enough to cope with too much. About the time we begin to get our thoughts straightened out we begin to go senile. Or, in the mean time, we've been knocked over by a taxicab or died of the plague or something else. We don't live that long.

I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that path, that we shall one day grow slow and stooped.

If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church. The

Wisdom gives a leader balance and helps to avoid eccentricity and extravagance. If knowledge comes by study, wisdom comes by Holy Spirit filling. Then a leader can apply knowledge correctly. "Full of wisdom" is one of the requirements for even subordinate leaders in the early church (Acts 6:3).

Samuel Chadwick contended that Satan fears nothing from prayerless studies, teaching, and preaching. "He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Why Read? "Read to refill the wells of inspiration

A discretionary hour can be wisely invested or foolishly wasted. Each

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Knowledge without action is empty as a shadow.