Quotes About Wisdom

pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, 'yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.

weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

But then, What is not vain, by God, in lives of men? All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff Until hard edges break into out path. Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief? In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?

One of the prizes of old age is its release from competition.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:2)

Beter één vuurpijl in de lucht, dan tien in de kast, heeft de koning geschreven

Ik houd me maar aan de regel van de oude koning, die heeft gezegd dat één ontstoken vuurpijl meer licht verspreidt dan honderd kisten vuurwerk op zolder.

Some say the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom," Gertie said. "I think the fear of women is the beginning of wisdom. At least for men.

should. I learned a long time ago to never close my mind to possibilities. Every time I did it made a fool of me.

If you live to a certain age, you'll always have regrets. Most of them will be selfish.

Breaking hips is for old people," Gertie said. "I have decided that I am middle-aged." "Ha!" Ida Belle said. "Middle-aged for what, a tortoise?

for some people, laziness could beat out common sense any day.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

I think, for one's single book, one would be wise to choose Mansfield Park or Emma rather even than Pride and Prejudice. "Wisdom is better than wit," as Jane Austen told Fanny, "and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side." People who begin by loving Pride and Prejudice, may end by rereading the later novels more often.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

Angry people are not always wise.

I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

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