Quotes About Wisdom

What excellent fools religion makes of men.

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.