Quotes About Wisdom

According to Chanakya, by pampering and accepting all the right or wrong demands of their children, they develop several bad habits. These bad habits hinder their progress and development in the future. It is, therefore, essential to discipline them also, in addition to loving them.

A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence' (Prov. 19:11).

Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

As Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

A horse walks down the middle of the road. A human being, on the other hand, sticks to one extreme or the other.

Almost everything that men have said best has been said in Greek.

Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas.

I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversation with many pauses, pauses replacing words. An Unnecessary Woman

I have reached the age where life has become a series of accepted defeats—age and defeat, blood brothers faithful to the end.

I read books—read, read, one can learn everything from books.

The story of the king is the story of the people, and unfortunately, to this day, no king has learned that lesson.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.