Quotes about Growth
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
— William Saroyan
My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.
— Jane Goodall
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
— Charles Dickens
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
— Dallas Willard
You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
— Robin Sharma
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
— Jerry Bridges
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
— AW Tozer
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
— Bishop TD Jakes