Quotes about Wisdom

Make mistakes and make bad decisions: you learn from them.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

Much handled things are always soft(27).

Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn't have to say he was smart. A hunter's hunter that's what he was. Smart as they come. Taught me two lessons I lived by all my life. One was the secret of kindness from white people —they had to pity a thing before they could like it. The other--- oh well, I forgot it." Joe Trace

Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder

My nature is a quiet one, anyway. As a child I was considered respectful; as a young woman I was called discreet. Later on I was thought to have the wisdom maturity brings.

Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.

Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).

This is what separates the men from the boys. Because as a kingdom man, you get to name things. Better yet, as a man under God's authority, you get to name things