Quotes on Wisdom

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word "Explosion" alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Most people don't pray until they're in trouble._x000D_ _x000D_ When people need help they pray a lot._x000D_ _x000D_ But after they get what they want, they slow down._x000D_ _x000D_ If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. _x000D_ _x000D_ Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.