Quotes about Wisdom

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

The Bible is the only reliable source for these life-interpreting facts.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. When

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Though we are to be wise, we are not to fear the world in which God has placed us. Yes, things will get messy. But if you are humbled by the messiness of sin in your own life, yet confident in God's grace to change you, you will not be afraid to get close to other sinners who need that same grace. God will use the messiness you encounter in others to spur your own growth in the gospel.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Men become old, but they never become good.

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.