Quotes About Wisdom

The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life—gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring.

never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.

We tend to think that a little anxiety and worry are simply an indication of how wise we really are, yet it is actually a much better indication of just how wicked we are.

We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to Him; instead of this we make our commonsense decisions and ask God to bless them.

Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.

Philosophie, die Liebe zur Wahrheit, ist im tiefsten Grunde die Abwehr des Unbegreiflichen.

Leben ist Tun und Leiden. Je wissender der Mensch, desto tiefer sein seelisches Leid.

Hay que ser héroe o santo. En el término medio no está la sabiduría, sino la vulgaridad

All the great successes of statesmanlike art and clever popular instincts were the result of cool contemplation, long silence and waiting, hard self-control and, above all, a fundamental renunciation of intoxication and and spectacles.

Why do we have to make such terrible decisions for our whole lives when we are too young to know what we are doing? The big mistakes are hung around your neck and you have to wear them forever.

Es gibt eine Art von Zauberei, die man mühsam erlernen muß: Das ist die, wie sie im Koraktor steht, Zeichen für Zeichen und Formel um Formel. Und dann gibt es eine, die wächst einem aus der Tiefe des Herzens zu: aus der Sorge um jemanden, den man lieb hat. Ich weiß, daß das schwer zu begreifen ist - aber du solltest darauf vertrauen, Krabat.

Denn Dummheit und Glück ja mit vorliebe Hand in Hand gingen.

It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference?Be sensible! What can you do about it?

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Like life, and love, learning is not a race to the finish, but a voyage to the start.

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.