Quotes about wisdom
wisdom truth honesty
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings
wisdom experience inheritance
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus
wisdom watches custody
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?) Juvenal
wisdom parent intelligence
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. Julius Charles Hare
wisdom book reading
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde
wisdom should asks
No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be? Maria Mitchell
wisdom children men
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. Paul Tillich
wisdom bad-day trying
When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you. Patrick Stump
wisdom pardon grows
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. Madame de Stael
wisdom reading knowledge
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. Gustave Flaubert
wisdom hands giving
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves. Gilbert K. Chesterton
wisdom men thinking
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.
wisdom people missing
...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.
wisdom wealth mankind
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. John Boyle O'Reilly
wisdom children justified
Wisdom is justified of her children. Matthew McConaughey
wisdom humor creativity
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward de Bono
wisdom fun ignorance
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
wisdom fun certainty-in-life
The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain. John F. Kennedy
wisdom government justice
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
wisdom thinking government
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
wisdom thinking somewhere-else
I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that. Richard Dawkins
wisdom cards dice
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. Richard Baxter
wisdom prayer giving
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies. Reinhold Niebuhr
wisdom religious allies
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
wisdom doubt orthodoxy
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
wisdom hurt kindness
Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others. Rick Warren
wisdom giving earth
You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
wisdom lying promise
What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie. You can trust the promise of God's Word.
wisdom one-day able
One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.
wisdom feel-good praise
We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.
wisdom hard-work people
Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have. Peter Garrett
wisdom found mankind
Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. Percy Bysshe Shelley
wisdom fun men
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.