Quotes about Wisdom
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I want to honor Jesus with the things I say and the things I choose not to say. Lord, help us all be so careful with sharing opinions as if they are truth.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
— Stromae
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
— St. Augustine
Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
— John Stott
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
— Lysa TerKeurst
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
— William Osler
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
— William Osler
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
— Winston Churchill