Quotes About Wisdom

Use your ears more than your mouth.

Obedience unlocks understanding.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you. Anytime you reject any part of yourself, you are rejecting God's wisdom and sovereignty in creating you.

En realidad, nunca entenderás algunos mandamientos si no los obedeces primero. Obedecer abre la puerta al entendimiento.

Debo obedecer a Dios en fe. Siempre que confiemos en la sabiduría divina y hagamos todo lo que nos manda, aunque no lo entendamos, estaremos afianzando la amistad con Dios.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

Few battles are won by strength alone. Cunning and knowing your resources can help you overpower the most powerful.

You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.

Cada día que pasa me parece que mi vida ha sido la justa, y que si tuviera que elegir de nuevo mi propia vida elegiría la que tuve.

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

Spending is worse than pain, she thought; it lasts longer.

Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood

Two wrongs don't make a right.

When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men," Mr. Wonka said.