Quotes About Wisdom

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

Everyone honors the wise.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."(Analects 2.12)

The greatest honor is the right direction one is turned into by the Holy Spirit

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

Learn from yesterday, live for today.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.