Quotes about Wisdom
They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.
— David Ogilvy
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
— David Wilkerson
Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord.
— Davis Bunn
Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.
— Davis Bunn
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
— Ben Carson
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
— Charles Kettering
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
— JM Coetzee
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
— Aesop
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome