Quotes about Wisdom
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.
- John Calvin
There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.
- John F. Kennedy
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
- Confucius
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
- Confucius
The superior man limits his achievements.
- Confucius
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
- Cormac McCarthy
The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
- Martin Luther
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
- Abraham Lincoln
I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
- Arthur Ashe
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
- CS Lewis
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
- CS Lewis