Adam Quote by Roger Bacon

“In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between…

— Benjamin Hoff

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of…

— John Calvin

And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there…

— Philip Pullman

“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not in the…

— G.K. Chesterton

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

— Anton Chekhov

Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of…

— Francois Rabelais

“The saviour answered...and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, you deserve to be called ignorant. For…

— Anonymous

“Wisdom may begin in wonder, however, it inevitability ends in righteousness (Socrates)." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we…

— Mark Twain

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a…

— Joseph Addison

“Wisdom was a thing that the Greeks admired; but Christ is the true light of the world, it is through him alone that true…

— Jonathan Edwards