Quotes About Wisdom

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where we have come from in order to better understand where we are heading.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

Pray about it before you talk about it,' Drew replied. 'Maybe I should try.' 'No maybes about it.

You know a lot of things, Uncle,' Gillian said, patting him on the shoulder as if he were a noble steed. 'Learned form books,' Clay promised her. 'You'll know as much once you read more of them. In fact, you'll know more than I do, because new books are always being written.

we find in the body an objective witness to our life that has no investment whatsoever in our skewed ego-versions of things. In addition, our Soma not only knows the truth of how it is with us, others, and the world, but it appreciates and, in a strange way, delights in everything. Even more, it wants to communicate this to us and provide mentoring. Our Soma is literally an infinite ocean of practical wisdom, and

Happy the old people who after long experience and many trials reach this superior simplicity of true wisdom, which they had glimpsed from a distance in their childhood! With this meaning it can be said that a beautiful life is a thought of youth realized in maturity.

We read in Ecclesiasticus also: "In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.

As the bee knows how to find honey in flowers, the gift of wisdom draws lessons of divine goodness from everything.

It has been said that if a little learning withdraws a person from religion, great learning brings him back to it.956

Let us remember that false prudence is tin, true acquired prudence is silver, infused prudence is gold, and the inspirations of the gift of counsel are diamonds, of the same order as the divine light. "He that followeth Me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life."1339

The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever

Reginald Hill

I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Tuhan, karuniailah saya ketabahan untuk menerima hal-hal yang tidak bisa saya ubah, Keberanian untuk mengubah hal-hal yang bisa saya ubah, Dan kebijaksanaan untuk membedakan keduanya.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.