Quotes about Wisdom
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived. Ironically
— Shane Claiborne
Lord, thank you for using the foolish to confound the wise and the weak one: to shame the strong. Help us live with the shrewdness of serpents and the innocence of doves. Keep our feet from fatigue, our spirits from despair, and our hands from failing to rise in praise to you. Amen.
— Shane Claiborne
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
— Shane Claiborne
Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. (Psalm 86:11 ESV)
— Sheila Walsh
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
— Oscar Wilde
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
— George Bernard Shaw
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
— Greg Laurie
Invest time that will compound forever.
— Henry B. Eyring
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
— Henry Ford
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
— JC Ryle
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti