“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”
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Wise Quotes — page 190 of 916
“The wisest fool in Christendom.”
“Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”
“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.”
“The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.”
“The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.”
“Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.”
“The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.”
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
“A film you can explain in words is not a real film.”
“I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.”
“I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.”
“No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.”
“If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.”
“Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.”
“"Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.”
“I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.”
“Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.”
“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�”
“You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.”