Quotes About Wisdom

The great evangelist Dwight Moody once said, "When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest shelf and I had to stoop down." In

Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

All the evil in the world is powerless against intelligence and courage.

The classics can console. But not enough.

To grow up is to endure the equivocal, to permit the ambiguous.

The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know;

Perhaps the first mark of emotional maturity is to realise that there is an enormous gulf between the events of the world and what we do with them.

Some people like to talk of intuition as a way of knowing truth; that gut reactions are as good as evidence based facts. Its a really silly way of thinking...

There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.

He who lives well lives well hidden.

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them.

I found myself beset by so many doubts and errors that I came to think I had gained nothing from my attempts to become educated but increasing recognition of my ignorance.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás" (René Descartes)

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (to live well is to live concealed)

A non-human life form with power over human life; gave them words of wisdom, afterwards there came those who were inborn with likeness, who will speak and has Spoken the languages of wisdom, Still they live Unidentified in the eyes of humankind bringing the spirit of hope, yet whenever they leave this world it shall always be so much sorrow. -MillYentei

Broken Minds, The easiest way to program a foolish mind is to tell them something that they know nothing about and proceed to make them believe it without doing any research for themselves, "Broken Minds" -MillYentei

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off louring Old Age.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Humility is truth.