Quotes About Wisdom

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

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

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

Put faith in one who's had experience.