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Wisdom Quotes
"Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind."
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"If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is."
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"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
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"A river cannot boast to a sea."
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"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself."
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"Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul."
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"We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses."
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"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
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"A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies."
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"No Christian has the right to go around wringing his hands, wondering what we are to do in the face of the present world situation. The Scripture says that in the midst of persecution, confusion, wars, and rumors of wars, we are to comfort one another with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is coming back in triumph, glory, and majesty."
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"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."
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"An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold."
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"Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities."
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"A fish is a genius in water. An eagle is a genius in air. A fox is a genius on land. A sage is a genius in life."
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"Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes, own them... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others."
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"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."
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"Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor. The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward."
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"Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed."
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"It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."
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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
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"Let your home be you mast and not your anchor."
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"A full mind is more valuable than a full bank account."
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"If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house."
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"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
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"To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom."
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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
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"We have a tendency to worship great people but do not adapt their ideas in our lives."
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"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
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