Quotes about Wisdom
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
- Margaret Atwood
Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.
- Robin Sharma
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
- Martin Luther
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
- John Bunyan
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
- DA Carson
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.
- Huldrych Zwingli
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
- Charles Spurgeon
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
- William Law
Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.
- John Wesley
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
- JD Greear