Bewilderment Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne Download Open image “A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bewilderment Inspirational Love Men Wisdom
“Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to his will,… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say "more wisdom.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square… — Ralph P. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
