Quotes related to Proverbs 3:13
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
— Robert Frost
President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
— Samuel Johnson
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
— John Keats
She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action
— George Eliot
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
— Samuel Johnson
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
— Samuel Johnson
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
— Henry Ford
The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness
— Aristotle
Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.
— Aristotle
Life is a gift of nature but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.
— Aristotle