Quotes about Wisdom
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
— George Washington
Faith fills a man with love for the beauty of its truth, with faith in the truth of its beauty
— Francis de Sales
We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.
— Os Guinness
God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change.
— Melody Beattie
Hell itself is truth known too late
— JC Ryle
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
— Jack Kerouac
Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
— Jacques Maritain
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.
— Roseanne Barr
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
— Carl Sagan