Quotes about Wisdom

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

So then, we must not read Lamentations without the rest of the Bible. But equally, we should not read the rest of the Bible without Lamentations (as Christians have habitually tended to do).

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

You can fill a cup, but if you keep pouring, it's going to overflow. This is distinct from just being just filled. This is overflowing with the Spirit. True education doesn't come from the wisdom of the world, but by the guidance and the wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit.

You can fill a cup, but if you keep pouring, it's going to overflow. This is distinct from just being just filled. This is overflowing with the Spirit. " "True education doesn't come from the wisdom of the world, but by the guidance and the wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit."-Pastor Chuck Smith, "Calvary Chapel Distinctives

The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

Let your desires be ruled by reason.