Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My dearest,’ said Valentine, ‘has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words –… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent;… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Brothers, if God brings us to the point of seeing that everything in God's work depends upon His blessing, it will bring… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Paul’s exciting and paradoxical proclamation is that “God’s folly is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength”… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Human wisdom has advanced to the point where man can construct satellites. And yet man in his wisdom cannot find a way… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, even with the most precise intuition, you don’t know what life is going to throw at you. Or you could see… — Guru Jagat Copy Share Image
“God's altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it.… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure… — Melanie Randolph Miller Copy Share Image
“Thus it is brought prominently before us, that superstition’s chief victims are those persons who greedily covet temporal advantages; they it is,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Levellers . . . only change and pervert the natural order of things: they load the edifice of society by setting… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“None of us can truly know what we mean to other people, and none of us can know what our future self… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in… — Deborah Stone Copy Share Image
“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who indeed knows why there can be comfort in a world of desolation?… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image