Quotes About Wisdom

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Let my temptation be a book.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Read less, study less, but think more

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

Silence is often advantageous.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.