Quotes on Wisdom

Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.