Quotes About Wisdom

Ex Scientia Lux Lucis (From Knowledge Comes Enlightenment)

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

Make God's Word your Sourcebook...

ROMANS 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.

Once it's all done, I fancy I'll come back as an owl. Free and alone in the quiet of the night.

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one.

Then, as they will, the riches overtook knowledge, and the people lost the ways to keep their wealth flowing.

desert kept a still tongue, and when

Gut feeling is often a better tool than all the psychological theories in the world.

one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.

I like stupid questions," Rimmer said. "They allow one to feel intelligent for once.

opinions are there to be changed as we grow older and wiser". Mats

Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?

IQ-ul nu înseamn? mare lucru, spusese el într-un interviu. ?i Goering avea un IQ mare. Po?i fi idiot ?i a?a.

Do you know what my rabbi says? That the mark of a man is his contradictions. We can long to be away and at home, both at the same time.

paraphrase Confucius, real knowledge is finding out the depths of one's own ignorance.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Attach yourself to truth, not to me. For I may die before you, but the truth will accompany you to your death.

It isn't a bad thing to hear voices... but you mustn't for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night world.

He who is always anxious to teach will learn nothing.