Quotes about Wisdom
Don't pray only for things; pray also for wisdom and courage. And never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.
— James H. Cone
The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view... that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22
— James Montgomery Boice
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— Carl Sagan
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
— Stephen Hawking
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
— John Ortberg
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
— Anselm of Canterbury
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
— DH Lawrence
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.
— G Campbell Morgan
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
— Martin Luther