Human Wisdom Quotes

44 quotes by 35 authors

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. — Paul David Tripp
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
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than… — Rene Descartes
Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and… — Symeon the New Theologian
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. — Johann Georg Hamann
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts… — Mark Van Doren
Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the… — Bill Vaughan
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use… — Daisaku Ikeda
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain,… — Thomas Paine
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak… — Charles Stanley
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of… — Ezra Pound
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps! — Alexandre Dumas
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt… — Alexandre Dumas
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. — Yevgeny Baratynsky
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself — Martin Luther
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. — Alexandre Dumas

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