Thursday, January 21, 2010

Wisdom

"Be more concerned about finding the right way than in having it your way." ~ John Wooden

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." ~ Walter Lippmann

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." ~
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." ~ Akhenaton

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." ~ George Bernard Shaw

"Wisdom is found only in truth." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." ~ David Starr Jordan

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." ~ Confucius

Proverbs 1:7 (New International Version)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,�
� but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

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