Quotes About Wisdom

we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This

For we always seem to ourselves righteous and upright and wise and holy—this pride is innate in all of us—unless by clear proofs we stand convinced of our own unrighteousness, foulness, folly, and impurity.

Where do all the labyrinths of error in the world come from [the objector will continue], if not from the fact that when men follow their own minds they land in vanity and lies? So

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

all those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God. Anyone

true knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Not to dwell on this, let us here remember that on the whole subject of religion one rule of modesty and soberness is to be observed, and it is this, in obscure matters not to speak or think, or even long to know, more than the Word of God has delivered.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God....Without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.

we must seek pure knowledge from the Law and the Prophets, in order that we may not be driven away from Christ by falsehoods invented by men.

So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods.

But we must so cherish moderation that we do not try to make God render account to us, but so reverence his secret judgments as to consider his will the truly just cause of all things.

For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity.

Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." - John Calvin

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

lack of firm knowledge rarely equates with complete ignorance.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.