Quotes about Wisdom

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.

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.

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.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

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.

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.

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."

I must dispel vanity with vanity.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.