Quotes about Wisdom
The last thing any of us needs is more information *about* God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Reason can only work with the experience available to it. Wisdom atrophies if it is not walked on a regular basis.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
— Thomas a Kempis
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
— JRR Tolkien
I have sometimes questioned the advice and direction I received from my parents and grandparents, but I never questioned the fact that they loved me. I learned that they were in a better position to know more about right and wrong than I did from my limited understanding and from my limited experience.
— James Faust
I've learned a lot the hard way.
— Nigel Benn
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
— Mae West
Relax!" old Ben urged him. "Be free. You're trying to use your eyes and ears. Stop predicting and use the rest of your mind.
— George Lucas
The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.
— George W. Bush