Quotes about Wisdom
One you learn to READ, you will be forever free
— Frederick Douglass
You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
As our Lord said, Where your treasure is, there is your heart also. Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the light that they gave to the world, was not IN them, but OUTSIDE them. Our Divine Lord, however, identified Divine Wisdom with Himself. It was the first time in history that it was ever done, and it has never been done since.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Like train announcers, they know all the stations, but never travel. Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen