“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Live then, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man,… — Lorenzo Carcaterra Copy Share Image
“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the… — SPURGEON C H Copy Share Image
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the God-breathed Scripture is not at all to provide a scientific gnosis in order to convey and increase human… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man… It is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives. This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom: If you ask and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an uncontrollable feeling of sadness grips us, he said. We recognize that the magic moment of the day has passed and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The parable teaches us the nature of that union. The connection between the vine and the branch is a living one. No… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“The future of the world no longer disturbs me; I do not try still to calculate, with anguish, how long or how… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“The advance of human technology is cummulative, but human wisdom dies with each generation.” — Daniel R. Cobb Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Human wisdom tells us to get as much as we can, believe only what we can see, enjoy pleasure, and avoid pain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
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