Quotes about Wisdom
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
- Michelangelo
How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.
- Michelangelo
Proverbs 2:4—5 challenges the body of Christ to seek the Lord as silver. We must gain the knowledge of Him, for there are hidden things that God will only give to the hungry.
- Mike Bickle
If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.
- Mike Bickle
We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power.
- Mike Bickle
If you are being discipled by a rabbi, you certainly want to know what the rabbi knows. But the actual goal of being a disciple is to become who the rabbi is. Not just to know what he knows, but to become like him.
- Mike Breen
The model for prayer taught us by Jesus is shallow enough for a baby to bathe in and deep enough for elephants to swim through.
- Mike Breen
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- Milan Kundera
I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.
- Moby
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
- Mortimer Adler
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
- Mortimer Adler
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
- Mortimer Adler