Quotes about Wisdom
When you have worn out shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
- Randy Alcorn
wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.
- Randy Alcorn
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
- Randy Alcorn
Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how we should have lived. But God has given us His Word so that we don't have to wait to die to find out. And He's given us His Spirit to empower us to live that way now.
- Randy Alcorn
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
- Randy Alcorn