Quotes About Wisdom

After years of brushing up against all kinds of people in the public eye, I've learned that great leaders are first of all great servants—and that great service is modest, understated, in speech and action. Understatement is self-restraint, and self-restraint is hardly a sign of weakness. On the contrary, wisely used, few things carry more power.

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

By direct command, example, implication, or principles, God's Word tells us everything we need to know about every aspect of following him in life—from dating to marriage, from working to grieving, from evangelizing to eating. What should churches do? The answer is in the Bible.

It's a familiar experience to poets, that arrival of a phrase laden with more sense than we can immediately discern, a cluster of words that seems to know, as it were, more than we do.

Metaphor is a way of knowing the world, and no less a one than other sorts of ways of gaining knowledge.

objective perspective

I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.

What kind of deception could deceive even the very elect?

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess.

Reading is life's grand second chance.

Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering of others. Not only does it makes us hurt, it makes us more human, caring, and wise.

to discriminate between the real and artificial is the beginning of wisdom;

The ancient sages understood that the good life needed to be more than just survival, that perfect health and many years to enjoy it was as real a satisfaction as could be found,

A traveller learns more than a passenger.

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.

The circumstances of a life must not dictate our terms of living it; that decision resides only in one's reaction to circumstance.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

Knowing isn't understanding

A communications expert once made this distinction: "A know-it-all who doesn't know what he is talking about is a jerk. A know-it-all who does know what he is talking about is just an ass.