Quotes About Wisdom

Vedi? Il denaro non lo puoi rovesciare: comunque lo giri ti mostra sempre una faccia.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

God writes His Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.

The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that a lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to a lack of respect for humans, too.

Speak not of what you know until you become that of which you speak, for a witch is what you are rather than something you do.

Silence is a profound teacher and a hard taskmaster. Learn her art when it is offered; there is much to hear within her temple!

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Perhaps the corollary would be just as good an opening for a tale; not "long ago, when animals could speak," but "Long ago, when people could listen.

We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord

The more we soak ourselves in God's Word, the more we will be able to readily lay hold of the wisdom we need for particular circumstances.

I'd never put my child through what God is doing to me." But God is a wiser parent than we could ever be. He places us in situations that provoke us, not to cause us to doubt but to strengthen us against our doubts.

Yet my confusion must be this: though her body is old, her capacity for betrayal is still young and fresh.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.