Quotes About Wisdom

A parallel imperative cause for accepting the message was the Messenger himself, a man who was, they were certain, too full of truth to deceive and too full of wisdom to be self-deceived.

To Fatimah he said: "Thou art the highest of the women of the people of Paradise, excepting only the Virgin Mary, daughter of 'Imran." In prediction of the great part to be played by 'Ali as one of the chief transmitters of his wisdom to future generations, he said: "I am the city of knowledge, and 'Ali is its gate"; and he said in general: "My Companions are even as the stars: whichsoever of them ye follow, ye shall be rightly guided.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

No great saint lived without errors.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

The Gospel is true because it deprives men of all glory, wisdom, and righteousness and turns over all honor to the Creator alone. It is safer to attribute too much glory unto God than unto man.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

Jerome] is a man quite without either judgment or application.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang (He who loves not Wine, Women and Song Remains a fool his whole life long)

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.