Quotes About Wisdom

I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.

Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.

Time is either used wisely or wasted foolishly.

we became the books we read.

Don't waste your gold dust.

We live in a world drowning in information and desperate for wisdom.

La felicidad es en gran medida como la riqueza y la sabiduría: aquellos que la poseen generalmente no necesitan hablar de ella, y aquellos que constantemente están hablando de ella generalmente no la poseen.

The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.

Embrace the now, and the future will be richer and more abundant because you had the wisdom, courage, and discipline to embrace this moment.

Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

Muchos nunca claman a Dios, hasta que están al final de su sabiduría; nunca acuden a Dios en busca de ayuda, siempre y cuando puedan ayudarse a sí mismos.

Porque, aunque no puede haber gracia sin conocimiento, puede haber mucho conocimiento donde no hay gracia;

Él solo conocerá correctamente a Dios, si sabe cómo obedecerlo, y le obedece de acuerdo con su conocimiento de Él:

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.

Richard Polly, 1942–2017 "Knowing others is Wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment." —Lao-tzu

He rang'd his tropes, and preach'd up patience;Back'd his opinion with quotations.

They talk most who have the least to say.

This is how great knowledge dies, on bookshelves in plain sight.

The acquisition of knowledge, the sheer pleasure of finding things out, is the greatest gift in life.