Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. — John Adams Copy Share Image
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps! — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke 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
“...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Yevgeny Baratynsky Copy Share Image
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while,… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation.… — Ani DiFranco 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
“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
Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force… — Bill Vaughan 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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