Quotes about Wisdom
I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.
- Joyce Meyer
the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things
- Paulo Coelho
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.
- John Milton
oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions
- William Paul Young
(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.
- Milan Kundera
The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
- Elisabeth Elliot
If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.
- St. Augustine
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
- Charles Spurgeon
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
- Confucius
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
- Shane Claiborne
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
- Mark Twain
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
- Vincent Van Gogh