Quotes about Wisdom

Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Whenever I feel discouraged in my own progress, I remember what one Trappist monk said to me as he reflected on his sixty years of life dedicated to prayer, "I am only a beginner.

Maturity in life is when someone is living joyfully within their God-given limits.

As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

All ways are byeways but the way of God, So broad, not thought a road.

Kindness is wisdom.

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. St. Thomas Aquinas

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.