Quotes About Wisdom

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.

We teach best what we most need to learn.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Nauki nigdy do??". Je?li masz wra?enie, ?e wiesz ju? wszystko, to jest oczywi?cie sygna?, ?e czego? nie wiesz.

My policy is, why wait? If you're going to look back and laugh, you might as well start laughing.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We

Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied.

Brethren, experience will teach you that men are not made learned or wise without hard study, unwearied labors, and experience.

Some desire to know merely for the sake of knowing, and that is shameful curiosity. Some desire to know that they may sell their knowledge, and that too is shameful. Some desire to know for reputation's sake, and that is shameful vanity. But there are some who desire to know that they may edify others, and that is praiseworthy; and there are some who desire to know that they themselves may be edified, and that is wise.

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Cassius Gallio had been right, but being right was overrated. Being smart was safer.

George Bush knew five times more about the governments of the world—his own included—than Ronald Reagan ever would.

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his fmight, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; 24But glet him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, 10judgment, and righteousness in the earth.

Baron Rothschild quipped that there are "three principal ways to lose your money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far more certain.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

Nothing is sadder than an old whore.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.