A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The advance of human technology is cummulative, but human wisdom dies with each generation.” — Daniel R. Cobb 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
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. — Gregory of Nazianzus 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“as if a round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe, golden apple with a soft, cool, velvety skin - thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“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
“The Levellers . . . only change and pervert the natural order of things: they load the edifice of society by setting… — Edmund Burke 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 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
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
“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
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
