Quotes about Wisdom
If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?
— John Wooden
Drink deeply from good books.
— John Wooden
Some people today may think these are naive or kind of corny. But think a moment about what they mean and who you become if you abide by them. That isn't naive. You don't become corny.
— John Wooden
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
— John Wooden
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books — especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
— John Wooden
you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
— John Wooden
Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.
— Tony Evans
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
— Herman Melville
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
— Martin Niemoller
My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
— St. Jerome
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
— CS Lewis