Benevolence Quote by John Adams

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

— Sylvia Boorstein

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing…

— Zhuangzi

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction…

— John Adams

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. In…

— Deborah Stone

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres…

— John Owen

Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity…

— Rene Descartes

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel:…

— Benjamin Franklin

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…

— Chogyam Trungpa

“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

— Bonar Law

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that…

— J. William Fulbright

“Human wisdom has advanced to the point where man can construct satellites. And yet man in his wisdom cannot find a way to rescue…

— Daisaku Ikeda