Quotes about wisdom
wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted.
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
wisdom men law
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
wisdom telephones mercy
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
wisdom eye dark
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
wisdom tired hungry
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
wisdom important asking
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
wisdom eternity childishness
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
wisdom given selection
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
wisdom madness cynicism
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
wisdom
I think there?s a lot of wisdom in that kind of modification. That was something we never thought about before. But now it?s a big deal.
wisdom spring men
A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring. Bill Vaughan
wisdom argument chickens
Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. Bertrand Russell
wisdom ego firsts
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
wisdom men wit
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
wisdom wise
He is wise that is wise to himself. Euripides
wisdom
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. P. J. O'Rourke
wisdom believe good-listener
Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone. Charles R. Swindoll
wisdom simple views
Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.
wisdom science discovery
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Charles Kettering
wisdom intelligence fool
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. Blaise Pascal
wisdom truth heart
We know the truth, not only be the reason, but also be the heart.
wisdom distance home
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there. Charles Spurgeon
wisdom differences making-a-difference
Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?
wisdom philosophy needs
To achieve, you need thought Ayn Rand
wisdom philosophy reality
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.