Quotes about Wisdom

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

Samson entertained Delilah, and she infiltrated his heart and took his secrets. Avoid entertaining thoughts that will destroy your peace.

Just because turtles dwell at your feet doesn't mean you should come down from your height and barter with, debate, or eat alongside them.

to weakness if you're fighting the wrong issue or the wrong person, or for the wrong reason.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn . .. for all things speak of Tuawa. -Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnees Tribe to Natalie Curtis, circa 190441

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.