Quotes About Wisdom

but the importation of knowledge did not mean the exportation of wisdom.

SECRET #14 Sometimes you shouldn't be so sure of what you think you're sure of.

Juvenal, another non-Christian writer of Rome, tells us that "fools seek revenge, philosophers forgive.

Lynn Thorndike

Alfonso the Wise of Castile (1252-1284)

Lynn Thorndike

The greatest virtues among terrestrial objects were attributed to gems, some of which, it was believed, could confer wisdom and eloquence, graciousness or success or riches upon their bearers, or even make them invisible.

a war maxim attributed to Napoleon: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Toti knew, someone with a strong sense

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

Lynne Reid Banks

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me people to help. I asked for favours and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

Prudence is a sorry matchmaker...

I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

The Bible reminds us that we shouldn't "let any unwholesome talk come out of [our] mouths (or fly from our typing fingertips), but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." That's from Ephesians 4:29

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

As Ravi Zacharias said, "Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.

Hoping doesn't mean I put myself in harm's way. It doesn't mean I ignore reality. No, hoping means I acknowledge reality in the very same breath that I acknowledge God's sovereignty.

Imagine this opportunity as an amazingly attractive but fast-moving river. There is so much that looks extremely appealing about this river, you're going to be tempted to jump right in. But once you are in the river, you have diminished your ability to make decisions. That river is moving so fast that it will take you where it is going. And if you haven't carefully traced out in advance whether you want to go through and to the places that river flows, you'll be in trouble.