Human Wisdom Quotes

44 quotes by 35 authors

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for… — Jimmy Carter
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men… — J. William Fulbright
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose… — Alan Paton
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to… — John Owen
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. — Bonar Law
We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are… — Paul Washer
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does… — Chogyam Trungpa
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the… — Daniel Defoe
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate… — Orson F. Whitney
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. — Joseph Story
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We… — Benjamin Franklin
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals… — Watchman Nee
We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save… — Paul Washer
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in… — Ani DiFranco
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were â€œfoolishâ€… — Oswald Chambers

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