Quotes about Wisdom
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children? I answered immediately and without thinking, We love each other.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The minute anybody starts telling you what God thinks, or exactly why he does such and such, beware.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An old ass knows more than a young colt
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light."—Madeleine L'Engle
— Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?
— Madeleine L'Engle