Quotes about Wisdom

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and big words bother me.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.