A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke 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
“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The advance of human technology is cummulative, but human wisdom dies with each generation.” — Daniel R. Cobb Copy Share Image
“A dictionary is a repository of human wisdom not because it contains an accumulation of words but because it embodies true hope,… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony… — Plato Copy Share Image
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that the Holy Spirit… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound 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
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of… — Alexandre Dumas 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
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
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
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen 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
“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
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
Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“History's long rhythm of challenges and response, of solutions that breed new crises, is not to be interrupted. But the Cold War… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness cannot but draw tighter the bonds which hold us fast to one another,” General Dumas had written to Marie-Louise as he… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. Every… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to… — Alexandre Dumas 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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