Quotes About Wisdom

Every atom a teacher, each Universe a seeker

Chi nata Pho pabohsa awpa heta ahy hmata âhnaw awpa châvei. Nâma nata keima tawhta tawhta pabohsana rai hria eimâ thao awpa a châ.

Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severly for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

I never view the ocean without being filled with ideas of the sublime, and am ready to break forth with the Psalmist, "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; in wisdom hast thou made them all."

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits of a vigorous mind are formed contending with difficulties. All history will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Gehring

Suffering is the finest teacher", said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details.

TRUE, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

She remembered the day that she first realized she would never be able to read every book in the world," said John Clement. "She cried for days.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic...

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Ah yet, ere I descend to the graveMay I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends, and many books, both true,Both wise, and both delightful too!

The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.