Quotes about Wisdom
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
— Andrew Carnegie
Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
— AW Tozer
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
— Martin Luther
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
— Gordon Hinckley
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
— Herman Melville
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
— Winston Churchill
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
— George Eliot
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
— John Stott
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
— Joseph Addison
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
— Adrian Rogers
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
— William Temple