Quotes about Wisdom

Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.

Anything done in anger can be done better without it!

He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire course of world history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the universe for our future role in it (John 14:2). He always has the best information on everything and certainly also on the things that matter most in human life. Let us now hear his teachings on who has the good life, on who is among the truly blessed.

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.

When our students accept the call of a servant leader to further the cause of Christ, it is time to begin considering how they can escape the strictly Christian subculture in order to shine their lights of truth into the dark places in our world. This will take great care and wisdom.

Only the humble person will let God be God. Such people are realistic about who they actually are.

The best physical, chemical, and other scientific knowledge will not tell us what to do and who to be.

Divine grace is God acting in our life to accomplish what we cannot do on our own. It informs our being and actions and makes them effective in the wisdom and power of God. Hence, grace is not opposed to effort (our actions) but to earning (our attitude).