Quotes about Wisdom
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
- Thomas a Kempis
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
- Thomas a Kempis
Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity.
- John Piper
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
- James Madison
I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
- Joseph Brodsky
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
- Billy Graham
the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.
- Karl Barth
He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.
- JC Ryle
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
- James A. Garfield
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
- John Milton
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
- John Newton
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.
- John Updike