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Insight
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- Almighty God, the Giver of Wisdom, without whose help resolutions are vain, without
whose blessing study is ineffectual, enable me, if it by Thy will, to attain such
knowledge as may qualify me to direct the doubtful and instruct the ignorant, to prevent
wrongs, and terminate contentions; and grant that I may use that knowledge which I shall
attain, to Thy glory and my own salvation.
-- Samuel Johnson
- There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things,
and a time for small things.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
- Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
-- St. Clement of Rome
- To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the
beginning of wisdom.
-- Horace
- Of all human pursuits the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime,
the most profitable, the most delightful.
-- St. Thomas Acquinas
- It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- It is wisdom to believe the heart.
-- George Santayana
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