Quotes about Wisdom

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.

If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

Most of us pass our lives away eating the husks of life. Within them, beneath the rind, is a sweeter fruit than ever we have tasted. How shall we find it unless the rind is peeled away by Wisdom greater than our own, by a Love whose ways are strange and bewildering to us.

Jésus n'a pas besoin de livres ni de docteurs pour instruire les âmes; lui, le Docteur des docteurs, enseigne sans bruit de paroles.

Does not the Wise Man tell us—"Life is like a ship that passeth through the waves: when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found"?

Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.