Quotes About Wisdom

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.