Quotes about Wisdom
No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.
— George Washington
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
— Henry David Thoreau
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
— Henry Ford
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
— Henry Ward Beecher
time wasted is not always a waste of time.
— Terri Blackstock
The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.
— Terri Savelle Foy
Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
— Terry James
Feel-good answers are not enough. Twice, the book of Proverbs tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death."
— Terry James