Wisdom Quote by The Church Fathers

“Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the…

— David James Duncan

“He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When the wise falls under the authority of the ignorant, they do not merely ruin them, but they utterly devastate them.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Depart then, impious one! Depart, accursed one! Depart with all your deceits, for God has willed that man should be his temple!”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act…

— Edmund Burke

“Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir…

— Matthew Henry

“In particular, we must observe   this general rule, that we cordially desire and labor for the welfare   of the whole human race. Thus it…

— John Calvin

“A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

“...[T]o restrain [evil men] by their sense of humanity is the same as to stop a runaway horse with a bridle of silk thread.”

— Walter Scott