School is a temple of knowledge, the library is a temple of wisdom, and Church is a temple of God.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

You need several eyes to see an opportunity, many eyes to see wisdom, and countless eyes to see God.

But I believe that there is no philosophical highroad in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his intuition must be profound.

The issue was not that he might act precipitously and recklessly because he didn't understand the consequences of doing so. The issue was that he could not comprehend the actual choices that needed to be made in order to act; indeed, he could not even stay in the room long enough to decide on a course of action. For Trump, the fog of war would waylay him before the first command could be given.

Proverbs 2:4—5 challenges the body of Christ to seek the Lord as silver. We must gain the knowledge of Him, for there are hidden things that God will only give to the hungry.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

the biblical texts themselves might suggest that there were better questions to be asking, which are actually screened out by concentrating on the wrong ones.

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.