Quotes About Wisdom

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

The Universal Turtle Verse I spend the day nibbling rent-free Underneath the Giving Tree. Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake Show Runny Babbit how to make Up verses. Then I lug my hump (Careful not to bump the Glump) Into the woods to trade a word With the argle-bargle bird: Nuthatch wisely recommends, Find out where the sidewalk ends.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

To grow in Christ was to grow in wisdom. To be nourished in the way of Jesus was to be nourished in an ancient way of seeing that is deep in the human soul, an inner truth that is not the preserve of one tradition over against another but a wisdom that precedes and is deeper than our divisions.

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

Never laugh at live dragons.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Their plans were improved with the best advice.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.

68. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.