Quotes about Wisdom
What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
— Ted Dekker
There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.
— Ted Dekker
The Beatles insisted he let it be, let it be. Stephen ejected the tape from his eight-track and threw it on the floor of the passenger seat. Whispered words of wisdom, please. They had no idea.
— Ted Dekker
It is surrendering what we think we know about the Father so we can truly know him.
— Ted Dekker
To know. Not to know about.
— Ted Dekker
Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.
— Ted Dekker
You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free, for in that Truth you are free already.
— Ted Dekker
For the sake of the world, they had to cling to what they knew, not what their emotions demanded from them.
— Ted Dekker
If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?
— Ted Dekker
Everything each of us does affects the others. None of us lives in a vacuum. We're simply children on a quest to gain the highest forms of wisdom without being compromised in the process. But when one is compromised, the others are compromised. You see that, don't you?
— Ted Dekker
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
— Julian Casablancas
Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.
— Julian of Norwich