Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge increases responsibility.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a shortsighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't. Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. In fact, you will never understand some commands until you obey them first. Obedience unlocks understanding.

Cultural lies conform us, but eternal truths transform us.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to figure out that nothing matters more.

La Biblia no se nos dio para aumentar nuestro conocimiento, sino para cambiar nuestra vida».

Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants. EPHESIANS 5:17 THE MESSAGE

I know," Ursula said, "it's like the Emperor's new clothes.

Discretion being the better part of valour

You are an old soul," he said. "It can't be easy. But your life is still ahead of you. It must be lived.

Her grandfather was dying of old age, Bertie thought. Worn out. Not cancer or a heart attack or an accident or a catastrophe. Old age seemed like a hard way to go.

This Temple of the Arts and Muses is dedicated to Almighty God by the first Governors of Broadcasting in the year 1931, Sir John Reith being Director General. It is their prayer that good seed sown may bring forth a good harvest, that all things hostile to peace or purity may be banished from this house, and that the people, inclining their ear to whatsoever things are beautiful and honest and of good report, may tread the path of wisdom and uprightness.

anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense

he wanted a son so he could teach him all the things he knew, as well as how to learn all the things he didn´t know. he couldn´t teach his daughter anything, she knew more than he did already.

In Jackson's experience it was often best to avoid the thing you were afraid of. Discretion really was sometimes the better part of valor.

I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history.

He was Irish, which always helped. A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn't.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. JOHN 8:32

You have the hey to the library, he said. Only be careful what you read.

We, in our less than divine wisdom but apparently quite divine powers, are now transforming the planet like an Olympian might have created an Ice Age, or a Titan might have thrown down an asteroid from the sky to kill off a bunch of dinosaurs. We are the gods. Our scientists have said so.

You can't know a father. They're all magicians. Got two million years of strings and mirrors in their pockets.

In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.

Romances serve but to feed the imagination of the young; they add nothing to the sum of truth.

The years that are gone seem like dreams--if one might go on sleeping and dreaming--but to wake up and find--oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.