Quotes About Wisdom

That took less hubris than thinking this was a message from on high.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt. His father had told him that. "Don't let them ask questions. You're already giving them the answers, even if they don't know it.

There's three ways not to see what you don't want to,' she told me. 'One is the coward's way and too damned painful. The other is to close your eyes forever which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: You have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you.' *

You know what they say about skydivers, right? There are old skydivers and bold skydivers, but there are no old, bold skydivers.

The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted...it is necessary to stay in it like oaks to know it. (1884)

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. —LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ

Don't do anything stupid.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

if you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

only a fool blames the messenger.

Use the Force! But use the bathroom first if you need to.

Since it's common for me to have errors in judgment, why then would I trust my own judgment over and above the judgment of God? If God has proven Himself to be God, it is absurd for me not to trust Him.

Pastors are leaders, but they are to be a part of a plurality of elders that submit to each other and are held in check by the congregation. It is not wise for any one leader, apart from Christ Jesus, to be without accountability.

All truth must be built on the knowledge of God, or, as we shall see, there is no ground for knowledge at all.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see," which I interpret to mean that looking way back into the past provides much better perspective into the enduring patterns of history. I'd

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

May God be everywhere you are about to look and absent where you already have.

There are times in world history when it is far wiser to act than to hesitate," and "there is some risk involved in action—there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

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I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either,

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves." —Lao-Tsu, founder of Daoism

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. —Swedish proverb