Quotes about Wisdom
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
— Henry Ward Beecher
there is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Inspiration is as mysterious as life, for both are God-given. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.
— Leonard Sweet
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really you are very dull!"
— Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
— Lewis Carroll