Quotes about Wisdom
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
— James A. Garfield
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.
— Brendon Burchard
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
— Herman Melville
Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.
— Greg Sestero
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
— George Weigel
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
— Samuel Johnson
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
— William Hazlitt
If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.
— Zig Ziglar
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher