Quotes About Wisdom

What youth sows, old age must reap.

Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years of age; wen He was found in the temple, He was "sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions" (Luke 2:46).

He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.

It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!

The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.

Who taught the child these things? Where did he learn them? The Bible alone can answer these questions! Of all the foolish things that parents say about their children there is none worse than the common saying: 'My son has a good heart at the bottom.

Sé misericordioso contigo mismo. Busca a Dios en tu juventud y te ahorrarás muchas lágrimas de amargura.

Thus hath the Lord said, Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls (Jeremiah 6:16).

La ignorancia y la inexperiencia son el pedestal del orgullo; quítale el pedestal, y el orgullo pronto caerá.

If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge

Don't fear withholding anything from your child that you think will do him harm, whatever his own wishes may be.

When days of darkness come upon us, let us not consider it a perplexing thing. Rather, let us remember that lessons are learned on such days that would never have been learned in sunshine. Let us say to ourselves, "This also is for my profit, that I may be a partaker of God's holiness. It is sent in love. I am in God's best school. Correction is instruction. This is meant to make me grow.

Depend on it, the nearer men draw to heaven, the more humble do they become.

Knowledge, not improved and well employed, will only increase our condemnation at the last day.

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

Men may be born in dark places of the earth, like these wise men, and yet like them be made "wise unto salvation.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Long have we peered, crouching on the watch-tower of our minds, through the darkness of ignorance lit alone by the northern lights of folly, till our scorched eyes falling as slags upon our hearts, a light celestial hath arisen from out the eyeless sockets of Eternity. A daystar, to flash forth into the west, winged and wonderful. A Pharos of gleaming hope lighting our way across the boisterous ocean of life to our haven of eternal rest.

Woe to the investigator so in love with his new idea that he neglects to test it rigorously against received wisdom; woe also to the investigator so in love with his old conceptions that he refuses to weigh the merits of a new insight.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

When all else fails, philosophize.

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.

It's a risk, I suppose. But wouldn't you learn and grow regardless of what the result was? That would be a gain, even if playing in Ringestad were not." Lorelin stepped lightly after her sister. "Don't just sit there, do something?" Irisa sat on the low wall and patted the spot beside her invitingly. "Except there's also: don't just do something, sit there!" Lorelin laughed. How did you tell which wisdom-saying to follow?