Quotes about Wisdom
To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
— George Muller
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— St. Augustine
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
— Walt Whitman
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
— Ravi Zacharias
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
— Ambrose of Milan
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
— Ellen Glasgow
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
— John Bunyan
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God is revealed in the book of nature for God is its author.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh