Quotes about Wisdom
Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.
— Francine Rivers
Love the way you take on new things, your drive to learn. I love how you work, how you have this little-girl look on your face when you finish something you've never tried before. I love watching you skip across the meadow with Ruth. I love seeing you laugh with Miriam and hang on Elizabeth's wisdom. I love the whole idea of growing old with you and waking up to you every morning for the rest of my life.
— Francine Rivers
May your heart soften like rich, plowed earth in which God will plant His seeds of truth and wisdom.
— Francine Rivers
Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies. She will not hinder him but help him all her life. PROVERBS 31:10, 12
— Francine Rivers
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... she held up four big-knuckled fingers. ...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing... She closed her fingers into a fist. ...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
— Frank Herbert
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
— Frank Herbert
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
— Frank Herbert
When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
— Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
— Frank Herbert
To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.
— Frank Herbert
Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.
— Frank Herbert
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
— Frank Herbert