Quotes About Wisdom

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

But, as Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it.

Finally, I must thank the boy, for forgiving me for all that I have fumbled, broken and lost, and the simple fact that, sometimes, I just don't have good sense.

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

life is too short to dance with an ugly woman

As you both know, the secret to a long and happy life in our world is knowing how to keep your secrets.

To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.

Truth without grace is what the enemy brings when he comes as an 'angel of light.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the humility of wisdom.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

To resist the depths of the world's sorrow, the truth of one's heart must be honored.

No one learns from the road walked by another man.

My father used to say that knowledge is knowing tomatoes are fruits, and wisdom is not adding tomatoes to a fruit salad.

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

This prophesied period of deception will be so intense that people will believe what is false over what is obviously true, even denying facts and truths that are common sense and that nature itself teaches (see Romans 1:20).

Pity – it was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Fake niggas always caught up in the realest shit, Mama always told me "watch who you be dealin with" snake bitches can't get wrapped up in your feelings with

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.