Even the wise man often stumbles.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.
—Amy Carmichael
Have we a bitter zeal, inciting us to strive sharply and passionately with them that are out of the way? Or is our zeal the flame of love, so as to direct all our words with sweetness, lowliness, and meekness of wisdom?
—John Wesley
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
—Aristotle
Lord, if it be most for thy glory, let me proceed in it; but if thou seest that it will in any wise hinder my usefulness in thy cause, oh prevent my proceeding…all I want, respecting this world, is such circumstances as may best capacitate me to do service for God in the world.
—David Brainerd
I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.
—R. A. Torrey
We rowed with all our strength under the wise guidance of our father. We were hot from work and happy. Father sat with an oar in the stern – cheerful and strong. He felt like a savior of the drowning, a seafaring hero, Vasco da Gama. And although life sent him a puddle instead of an ocean, his soul was oceanic. And precisely because his soul would be enough for an entire ocean, Vasco da Gama sometimes could not stand this disproportion and sunk his ships in the tavern.
“Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”
“Everything is in a constant state of change, and the wise investor recognizes that success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.”
— Sir John Templeton
“Seek then strength from the Strong one and wisdom from the Wise One.”
Wise and holy people, the teachers of humanity, simply manifest that which is common to all people. The light they emit is nothing more than the revelation of the power that’s hidden within every human being.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wise and holy people, the teachers of humanity, simply manifest that which is common to all people. The light they emit is nothing more than the revelation of the power that’s hidden within every human being.
—Leo Tolstoy
The application of Christ to us, for wisdom and sanctification, is not perfected in one single act, but rises by many, and slow degrees to its just perfection.
—John Flavel
He who talks a lot does little. A wise person is always afraid that his words will be greater than his deeds. Therefore, he’s more usually silent and speaks only when it is necessary for others rather than himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
He who talks a lot does little. A wise person is always afraid that his words will be greater than his deeds. Therefore, he’s more usually silent and speaks only when it is necessary for others rather than himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
The knowledge of ourselves, in reference to our supernatural end, is no small portion of our wisdom.
—John Owen
If you want to get heavenly wisdom you must pass through God’s college. Do you know where that is? Why, at the feet of Christ.
—D. L. Moody
The fool fears and retreats from evil, because he does not know how to overcome it, and the wise man trusts himself, fights evil and defeats it.
—Taras Shevchenko
A wise person never wants to change his earthly life, because he’s always happy with the life he’s living.
—Leo Tolstoy
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas
Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier.
—Laozi
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
—John Milton
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.
—Laozi
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
—Plato
Wisdom begins only when one takes things as they are.
So it is a healing attitude when one can agree with the facts as they are, only then can we thrive.
—Carl Jung
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
—Socrates
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy