Quotes About Wisdom

We can't get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Each story, good and bad, short or long--from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness--they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you've gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

Anger has grand plans that sometimes look foolish later.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

Great mentors give great advice.

Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half. (1998)

you don't know until you know!

Listen to what the sky is telling you.

There's nothing like the gift of understanding.

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses.

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.

I do not know about you. But, I prefer a life spent making mistakes than a life making none.

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

I thank God for every experience.

The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference

Once you change the way you see the world, you can never go back to not seeing it that way.

I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.

The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.

The Word of God is Spirit-taught words.

Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction.