Quotes about Wisdom

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.