Quotes About Wisdom

The influence of the God-fearing but perfectly unemotional wisdom of the Hebrews, which is expressed in the books most read by the Puritans, the

All the great religious doctrines of Asia are creations of intellectuals.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank that guides her life. She plants vegetable gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the field and eats food left for the gods.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

The clay or putty-like material stays soft and malleable enough to do so many, many times. In his infinite wisdom, God manufactured the self-image of similar material, so it remains malleable throughout our entire lives. No one is ever too old, too jaded, too frightened, or too traumatized to "wet the clay" and begin remaking it as they imagine and desire.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone

Knowledge Gives You Power.

from impulsive and ill-considered actions; the other is

God created man "a little lower than the angels" and "gave him dominion"; that God created man in his own image. If we really believe in an all-wise, all-powerful, all-loving Creator, then we are in a position to draw some logical conclusions about that which he has created—man. In the first place such an all-wise and all powerful Creator would not turn out inferior products, any more than a master painter would paint inferior canvases.

Self-fulfilled persons have the following characteristics: 1. They see themselves as liked, wanted, acceptable, and able individuals 2. They have a high degree of acceptance of themselves as they are. 3. They have a feeling of oneness with others. 4. They have a rich store of information and knowledge.

The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

The mere reading of words will not show you or give you the experience of truth.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings and not count the years.

Rumors were nothing more than blunted swords of simple minds and wagging tongues.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.