Quotes About Wisdom

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence .

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

Is there a vaccine for ignorance and stupidity?

La connaissance est neutre , mais elle peut être utilisée avec de bonnes ou de mauvaises intentions.

Knowledge is not positive or negative, it is always neutral. It is how knowledge is used that is positive or negative.

When anyone tells you they have all the answers it is time to race for the exits.

Death is no cure for ignorance.

You don't need to find an "enlightened one" to tell you what to think - you are an enlightened one. We all are.

It is never too late to apply good sense as a corrective to stupidity.

A common view of knowledge, going back to Plato, is that knowledge is justified, true belief. To know something, you have to think it's true (that's belief), you have to be right about it (that's truth), and you have to have good reasons for believing it (that's justification).

There comes a point in every man's life when he sees that the magician's hat is empty, that the government and the church are run by fools, and that virtue is far rarer than he'd been led to believe.

Major Message Bad attitudes and demands that the Lord give us what we want are unwise. The people had a bad and rebellious attitude. Rather than humbly requesting some meat to go with the manna, if it had been in harmony with the Lord's will, they demanded meat and complained loudly to Moses, as if he were the Lord. Their prideful and strident approach is answered by the Lord with a severe lesson.

wickedness does not promote rational thought. This is, in fact, a major message of the scriptures.

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

David J. Ridges

11 There is no remembrance of former things [nobody remembers the past]; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after [neither will the future be remembered by those who come after it; in other words, nothing changes]. By the way, you can probably see that verses 9–11, above, could also be interpreted as saying, in effect, that nobody ever seems to learn from the past, which in many ways would be true of worldly societies and people.

Honest people recognize the limitations of their own knowledge. God's perfection does not extend to God's creatures.

Increasingly, I learned that the great spirits of religious traditions do not solve all questions but live in the questions, and return to them again and again, not as a circle returns, but as an ascending spiral comes to the same place, each time at a higher level.

Teach your tongue to say 'I don't know.

So long as I asked dismissive questions, faith seemed to me impossible. As life softened some edges and granted some wisdom, I began to ask out of genuine seeking, out of curiosity and not contempt. The very nature of a question opened my eyes to the possibility that what we cannot touch, what we cannot see, may indeed still be real.

it is a response to a reality beyond us. Far from being trapped in tribal illusions, we are liberated by transcendent truths.